Religion and science - OCR

Question 1

What subject is McGrath from and what did he say?

Answer 1

• God caused the Big Bang
• Evolution gives the world purpose
• Religion gives the bigger picture
• religion and science are complimentary

Question 2

What subject is Polkinghorne from and what did he say?

Answer 2

• Science has unanswerable questions and religion answers these
• Reason is much more important than how

Question 3

What did Paul Davies say and what is his book?

Answer 3

• Mind of God
• mathematical principles show that we are special in the universe
• anthropic principle = range of values, 1 off we would not exist
• ‘We are truly meant to be here
• Goldilocks Enigma - can’t happen by chance, gives the world purpose and so fine tuned - remember story of Goldilocks

Question 4

What did Michael Behe discuss in his book ‘Darwins Black Box’?

Answer 4

• Symbol of where life first comes, where you can’t explain
• Existence of irreducible complexity
• Anything less complex it wouldn’t work
• Flagellum - 40 parts - without would not function
• Modern biochemistry lifted lid of Darwins box
• As more complexities God = more logical