Religion and Science

Question 1

What is the Big Bang Theory?

Answer 1

The theory that the earth was created about 18 billion years ago by a massive explosion

Question 2

What is the evolution theory?

Answer 2

The theory that groups of organisms change with passage of time, mainly as a result of natural selection, so descendants differ from ancestors

Question 3

What is intelligent design?

Answer 3

Features of the universe are best explained by the existence of an intelligent cause

Question 4

What is a steward?

Answer 4

Someone responsible for resources; a guardian of something that does not directly belong to them

Question 5

What is cosmology?

Answer 5

The study of the origins and nature of the universe

Question 6

What are the two ideas for the origins of the world?

Answer 6

The creation story

The Big Bang

Question 7

What are the two ideas for the origins of humanity?

Answer 7

Evolution

Creation day 6

Question 8

What is a scientific theory?

Answer 8

An idea that has been tested that has the best answer/most evidence for being true

Question 9

Who was Richard Dawkins?

Answer 9

He was an atheist scientist man.
He was also a biologist
He was a blind watch maker
He said that no God could possibly exist
He wrote a book called 'God delusion'

Question 10

Who is Steven Hawking?

Answer 10

He does not rule out God
He is a scientist
He said that “we are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of an average star, but we have an understanding of the universe and that makes us pretty special”

Question 11

What do Christians believe about animals and the environment?

Answer 11

That we either have stewardship over them, or dominion over them.

Question 12

What will Christians do to help the environment?

Answer 12

Recycle
Pick up litter
Drive electric cars
Join Green Peace

Question 13

What two things attempt to prove God’s existence?

Answer 13

The cosmological and the teleological arguments

Question 14

What is cosmology about?

Answer 14

The origins of the universe

Question 15

What do scientists believe about the creation of the earth?

Answer 15

That it was created 13.7 billion years ago in an explosion called the big bang.

Question 16

What do fossil records show?

Answer 16

That signs of life appeared 4,000 million years ago.

Question 17

For over 3000 million years what were the dominant signs of life?

Answer 17

Bacteria and blue-green algae

Question 18

What happened 600 million years ago?

Answer 18

New life forms began

Question 19

What were the dominant species 120 million years ago?

Answer 19

Dinosaurs

Question 20

What animals evolved in which order?

Answer 20

Birds, then mammals, then primates.

Question 21

What are the two biblical accounts of creation?

Answer 21

The account of God creating the universe in 6 days in Genesis
The account of God creating Adam out of the Earth and placing him in the garden of Eden

Question 22

What are the different interpretations of Genesis?

Answer 22

Most believe that God brought the universes into being from nothing (ex nihilo)
Some believe that it was created from matter that already existed (ex materia)

Question 23

What is the name for people who take the biblical account of creation to be literally true?

Answer 23

Creationists

Question 24

What is the liberal approach to the story about the creation?

Answer 24

A liberal might regard these accounts as more like parables or symbolic accounts that tell the profound truth that God brought the universe and all that is in it into being, and sustains his creation.

Question 25

In the 4th century CE , what did St Augustine say?

Answer 25

That God probably only created very simple life forms and that these developed.

Question 26

Who is evolution associated with today?

Answer 26

Charles Darwin

Question 27

Why did some Christians see Darwin’s theory as a threat to their faith?

Answer 27

Because it appeared to challenge the authority of the Bible.

Question 28

What is creationism?

Answer 28

the belief that the universe and living organisms originate from specific acts of divine creation, as in the biblical account, rather than by natural processes such as evolution.

Question 29

Where is the belief about creationism very strong?

Answer 29

In the USA

Question 30

Is it legal or illegal to teach creationism?

Answer 30

Illegal

Question 31

Christians who believe in both God and science see no problem with them existing together. What question do they think religion is trying to answer and that question do they think science is trying to answer?

Answer 31

Religion trying to answer the question ‘why’

Science trying to answer the question ‘how’

Question 32

What do Christians who have no problem with evolution believe the Bible shows?

Answer 32

An authoritative account of God’s relationship with human beings and the wider universe.

Question 33

What did God do in each day of the creation?

Answer 33

1 - separates light and darkness
2 - Separates the waters and creates the sky
3 - Separates the sea from the land
4 - Creates sun moon and stars
5 - Fish, sea monsters and birds
6 - Creates animals and humans
7 - Rest day

Question 34

What is the name of the theory put forward by many fundamentalists in america?

Answer 34

Intelligent design

Question 35

What are fundamentalists?

Answer 35

the demand for a strict adherence to certain theological doctrines

Question 36

Explain the idea of ‘Intelligent design’

Answer 36

It is an alternative to evolution

It argues that evolutionary explanations of the origins of life can’t explain all the differences between the species

Question 37

What have recent discoveries in DNA shown?

Answer 37

How closely related humans are to some primates and other animals

Question 38

How much of our DNA do we share with some apes?

Answer 38

97%

Question 39

What does the book of Genesis set humans as being?

Answer 39

Very separate from from the rest of the animal kingdom

Question 40

What are Christians concerned about regarding the environment?

Answer 40

Hunting animals for sport
Wearing fur coats for fashion
The treatment of animals in intensive farming
Over fishing
The use of animal testing for cosmetics

Question 41

Why do some Christians chose to be vegetarian?

Answer 41

Because God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food”

Question 42

What does God say after to flood to Noah?

Answer 42

“Everything that lives and moves is yours to eat, just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything”