Religion And Science Flashcards
what is religious truth?
truth that is claimed by religious believers due to faith and belief evidence comes from conscience, experience and tradition.
What is scientific truth?
Truth that has been found by theory and evidence-experiment and testing
What is the Big Bang?
an explanation for the origins of the universe happening 10-15 billion years ago where the universe is still evolving
What is the creation story?
the story in Genesis about how the world was created
What are creationists?
people who believe that the story of creation is true
What is a myth?
a story with truth within it- but not necessarily scientific truth but moral truth
What was the cosmological revolution?
Scientific period of time when people realised the world was round and not at the centre of the universe
what is evolution?
the fact that the world as we know it has come about by billion of years of change and survival
What is natural selection?
the fact that some species and others die off depending on the fittest. Species adapt to their surroundings and survive
What is absolute truth?
fixed unchangeable facts that something will be true for all time and in all culture
What is authority?
something that has power and deserves obedience
Which truth is the most reliable?
scientific
what is historical truth known as?
subjective
explain the big bang
the universe started at a single point and constantly changes. After this initial event the universe has expanded and when the temperatures had cooled, it took another billion years for the stars and galaxies to appear.
what happens at each day of the creation story?
day 1-night and day day 2-sky and earth day 3-land and sea day 4-sun and moon day 5-sea creatures day 6-plants, animals and humans day 7-God rested
How can the creation story and the big bang not be compatible? 5
- the big bang is not in the bible-therefore it is not true
- it took God 6 days to create the world, not billions of years
- God created the world, the big bang was by chance
- science and religion and opposites
- there is no God in science
How can the creation story and the big band be compatible? 4
- God could have made the big bang happen
- scientists believe both
- non-literal reading of the Bible could convert days to billions of years
- could agree it is a myth
Who wasnt the first to say, but was the first to be believed that the world wasnt flat?
Nicholas Copernicus
What else did Nicholas Copernicus say?
that the earth went around the sun,not the other way round
Who invented the telescope?
Galileo
Why was Galileo put under house arrest?/
he discovered sunspots and craters on the moon proving that the heavens were not unchanging. the planets movements were natural not a cause of God. The church said this contradicted the Bible as the sun was not the centre of the universe.
what was the final impacts of the cosmological revolution? 4
- the earth and humanity was not the centre of the universe
- science became free to do things and no longer refer to God as the cause of all physical things
- science did not have to mach the teachings of God
- God was still the explanation of things people didnt understand, but science and religion separated
What was the quote Galileo gave about heaven and earth?
“the Bible shows the way to go to heaven not the way the heavens go”
explain evolution
all life on earth has developed from early stages to its present state. a chain could be established that leads back to the origins of each species. nature selects what survives and continues. not God
