Religion And Science - Philosophy

Question 1

Cosmology relates to two _______ which are

Answer 1

Theories
• The Big Bang theory
• Evolution

Question 2

What is the Big Bang theory?

Answer 2

Suggests there was a massive explosion about 18 billion years ago and this led to gases and and matter to fly out in all directions. This stuff formed the creation of the whole universe. Evidence of the theory is found by the most modern high-powered telescopes

Question 3

The evolution theory was created by?

Answer 3

Charles Darwin

Question 4

What is the evolutionary theory?

Answer 4

Life began with a simple cell and evolved and developed into the variety of plant and animal which is now on the earth. This happened by natural selection so they can adapt to the environment as it changes. It’s survival of the fittest..

Question 5

What is literalism? When a Christian believes something literally?

Answer 5

When they believe the creation story and what is said in the bible about the 6 days of creation. They are creationists

Question 6

Describe the creation story…

Answer 6

Day 1: light and dark
Day 2: land and water
Day 3: plants
Day 4: sun, moon, stars
Day 5: fish and birds
Day6: animals and humans

Question 7

What do Christians believe about the importance of people and animals?

Answer 7

They believe that people are made in the image of god and that they differ from animals because people have souls

Question 8

What are Christian attitudes to animals and their treatment?

Answer 8

God gave them responsibility to care for animals and that as the animals are part of gods creation, they should be treated with respect and shouldn’t be harmed

Question 9

What’s the Christian responses to environmental issues?

Answer 9

They believe god greater people to be ‘Stewards’ of the earth and this means they should show responsibility for the planet and take care of it and protect it

Question 10

The study of the origin of the universe is called…

Answer 10

Cosmology

Question 11

What is liberalism? When a liberal Christian things something?

Answer 11

Christians who accept some scientific theories and look on the bible accounts as myths (stories made up to explain difficult ideas)

Question 12

What is the theory of intelligent design?

Answer 12

The theory that certain features of the universe are explained by an intelligent cause (God). The theory explains that the universe and all that’s in it did evolve- but god was the one that started it all

Question 13

What are the two Christian views on eating animals for food?

Answer 13

• as long as they are slaughtered humanely and are not caused unnecessary pain.
• some feel that their role is to look after animals, so they are vegetarians

Question 14

What do most Christians believe about the difference between animals and humans? What do some others think?

Answer 14

Humans have souls so they are superior, they believe this soul is reunited with God when they die

All life is created by god so we should treat them equally with respect

Question 15

What do most Christians think about using animals for medical research (vivisection)?

Answer 15

They think its fine as long as it relieves human suffering

Some say it’s wrong tho as they are responsible for animals

Question 16

In the past, many Christians haven’t been worried about what has been happening to the planet. But today there is more of an awareness and Christians believe it is their duty to look after the planet. This means they need to be ________

Answer 16

Stewards

Question 17

What does being a steward mean?

Answer 17

People responsible for resources and should do everything they can to protect the environment

Question 18

What are some environmental issues that Christians might be concerned about?

Answer 18

• Global warming
• Pollution
• Exhausting the world’s resources
• Burning fossil fuels
• Deforestation
• too much rubbish in landfill(decomposition releases gases)
• human damage - war
• wasting resources- people buying too much stuff like food

Question 19

What might Christians do to show stewardship? Name 3.

Answer 19

• Recycle things and encourage other people to do the same
• Use cars with low emissions or use public transport
• use products that don’t contain harmful CFCs to prevent destruction of the Ozone layer
• Join an organisation such as Friends of the Earth that works for the good of the environment
• Recycle, never waste food

Question 20

What’s the evidence for the Big Bang theory?

Answer 20

• we can actively measure galaxies moving away at a great speed form the centre of the universe (redshift)
• Radiation was discovered left behind an after effect from the Big Bang

Question 21

Name a scientist today that is working to find out more about how the universe began…

Answer 21

Stephen Hawking

Question 22

What are the problems/limitations of the Big Bang theory? Name 2

Answer 22

• It doesn’t explain where most of the elements came from
• it happened millions of years ago before human existence or memory
• there are still many gaps in the theory - no ultimate proof

Question 23

What part/book of the bible is the creation of the universe in?

Answer 23

Genesis

Question 24

What’s the sentence that helps u remember what happens on each day?

Answer 24

Lions do sometimes eat old people sloppily. Men sometimes bake fresh apple pie.

Lions - light
Do - dark
Sometimes - sky
Eat- Earth
Old - ocean 
People - plants
Sloppily - sun

Men - moon
Sometimes - stars
Bake - birds
Fresh - fish
Apple - animals
Pie - people

Question 25

What’s a fundamentalist Christian?

Answer 25

Only one correct way to look at things

Question 26

What’s a liberal Christian?

Answer 26

Taking a broad minded view and accepting that people might not always agree

Question 27

What’s the evidence for evolution?

Answer 27

Fossils and looking at different varieties of animal life.

Also primordial soup which suggests gases and things produced from volcanoes are released into the atmosphere and plants and humans are developed from these conditions by a single cell

Question 28

What are the liberal and fundamentalist views on evolution

Answer 28

Liberal - may agree with the theory of evolution happening over a long period of time.

Fundamentalist- do not agree with the theory of evolution, they believe all animals and humans were made during creation

Question 29

What are quackers?

Answer 29

People who believe all violence is wrong and so they don’t agree with any animal experiments. Most are vegetarians.

Question 30

What’s a dominion?

Answer 30

This is the belief that we are more important than animals because god put us in charge to use the environment in the way that it benefits humans?

Question 31

Name two charities that Christians might choose to get involved with for environmental reasons?

Answer 31

Friends of the earth

Green peace

Question 32

What is intelligent design?

Answer 32

Is the theory that god creating things then evolution helped things to develop. Gods plan means things will keep evolving…