Religion And Science

Question 0

what is religious truth?

Answer 0

truth that is claimed by religious believers due to faith and belief evidence comes from conscience, experience and tradition.

Question 1

What is scientific truth?

Answer 1

Truth that has been found by theory and evidence-experiment and testing

Question 2

What is the Big Bang?

Answer 2

an explanation for the origins of the universe happening 10-15 billion years ago where the universe is still evolving

Question 3

What is the creation story?

Answer 3

the story in Genesis about how the world was created

Question 4

What are creationists?

Answer 4

people who believe that the story of creation is true

Question 5

What is a myth?

Answer 5

a story with truth within it- but not necessarily scientific truth but moral truth

Question 6

What was the cosmological revolution?

Answer 6

Scientific period of time when people realised the world was round and not at the centre of the universe

Question 7

what is evolution?

Answer 7

the fact that the world as we know it has come about by billion of years of change and survival

Question 8

What is natural selection?

Answer 8

the fact that some species and others die off depending on the fittest. Species adapt to their surroundings and survive

Question 9

What is absolute truth?

Answer 9

fixed unchangeable facts that something will be true for all time and in all culture

Question 10

What is authority?

Answer 10

something that has power and deserves obedience

Question 11

Which truth is the most reliable?

Answer 11

scientific

Question 12

what is historical truth known as?

Answer 12

subjective

Question 13

explain the big bang

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

what happens at each day of the creation story?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

How can the creation story and the big bang not be compatible? 5

Answer 15

• 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

Question 16

How can the creation story and the big band be compatible? 4

Answer 16

• 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

Question 17

Who wasnt the first to say, but was the first to be believed that the world wasnt flat?

Answer 17

Nicholas Copernicus

Question 18

What else did Nicholas Copernicus say?

Answer 18

that the earth went around the sun,not the other way round

Question 19

Who invented the telescope?

Answer 19

Galileo

Question 20

Why was Galileo put under house arrest?/

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

what was the final impacts of the cosmological revolution? 4

Answer 21

• 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

Question 22

What was the quote Galileo gave about heaven and earth?

Answer 22

“the Bible shows the way to go to heaven not the way the heavens go”

Question 23

explain evolution

Answer 23

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

Question 24

explain Lamarcks explanation

Answer 24

organisms changed due to their environment and that the most successful grow to be the strongest. He also suggested that their characteristics that they develop will then be passed down to their offspring.

Question 25

What was Darwins quote about nature and God?

Answer 25

“everything in nature is the result of fixed laws”

Question 26

Darwin described himself as what?

Answer 26

an agnostic- he would not deny the existence of God

Question 27

What is the evidence against evolution?5

Answer 27

• evolution contradicts the book of Genesis
• evolution suggests nature is cruel, but the bible says that God designed the world
• how can humans created in Gods image if they evolved from other species
• we could not have evolved as humans have souls and animals dont
• gaps in the fossil records- this can reject evolution

Question 28

What is the evidence for evolution? 3

Answer 28

• if evolution is true, God created it as he created everything
• God created things with the ability to create and adapt
• evolution can be Gods plan