Religion And Life Flashcards

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Scientific truth comes from making a….

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Hypothesis

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2
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What does science aim to answer?

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How questions

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3
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What does religion try and answer?

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Why questions

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4
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What’s the Big Bang theory?

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The universe began as an incredibly small and dense point known as a singularity which started to expand 13.8 billion years ago.
As it expanded and cooled gases formed and then matter which formed stars and galaxies

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5
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What do Fundamentalist Christians argue about the Creation story?

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That the world was created by God in 6 days.

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What do Creationists say?

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  • God wouldn’t lie in the Bible
  • “it was good” so why would there need to be evolution?
  • have a way for explaining physical evidence, ex Noah’s flood washed away dinosaurs
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7
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What do Liberal Christians believe about the Creation?

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  • he was behind the universe
  • we are scared and God cares for us
  • humans have been giving the job of looking after the world
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8
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Give some physical examples for the scientific explanation

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Red shift (light waves are becoming longer and redder as they move away)

Cosmic background radiation

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9
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Bible evidence for Creation

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In the beginning God created heaven and earth

Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air…..

God saw all that he had made and it was good

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