Theme B: Religion & Life Flashcards
What did God create in the first 3 days according to Genesis?
- Light and Dark, 2. Sea and Sky, 3. Land plants
What did God create in the last 3 days according to Genesis?
- Sun and moon, 5. Fish and Birds, 6. Animals and Humans
What does the Big Bang Theory state?
The universe started from a random explosion billions of years ago.
What does the idea of Evolution state?
Simple organisms appeared billions of years ago, adapted to their environments and only the strongest survived.
What is evidence for the Big Bang Theory?
Red shift and cosmic background radiation
What is evidence for evolution?
Fossils
What is creationism?
Believing the words of the Bible for what it states
What is awe?
A feeling of devout respect mixed with fear and wonder
What is wonder?
Marvelling at the complexity and beauty of the universe.
What is the difference between stewardship and dominion?
Stewardship states that humans have a duty to care for and look after the environment that God created, whilst dominion states humans can use it to their own advantage.
What is sustainable development?
Building and progress that try to reduce the impact on natural world for future generations.
What are 3 ways Christians believe they can help the environment?
Avoid waste, reserve energy and reduce the demand for natural resources
What are 3 types of pollution?
Air, water and land polluton
How were the 3 types of pollution caused?
Air was caused by fumes from factories, water was caused by dumping waste into the sea and land was caused by ineffective disposal of water.
What are the effects of the 3 different types of pollution?
Air could cause lung cancer, water could cause the killing of marine animals and land could lead to contaminated food and poisoned wildlife.
What does the ‘Hope’ team do?
Interact with the local community to clean town signs and pick up litter.
What is holism?
An idea referencing karma, that we are all interconnected and reliant on each other in the circle of life.
What are 3 reasons for vegetarianism?
Eating meat is unethical and cruel, humans evolved to eat this diet and complete nutrition is available from this diet.
What are 3 reasons against vegetarianism?
Meat is a good source of protein, there is no teaching in the Bible specifying and the idea of dominion
What are 3 Christian beliefs about creation?
It was made in 6 days, it was good and some believe the Big Bang is acceptable
What are 2 arguments for animal experimentation to Christians?
We have dominion and human life is more valuable
What are religions views against animal experimentation?
Given stewardship; to take care of animals and that they are God’s creation so we cannot take away what He created
What are religious views for euthanasia?
We should ‘clothe ourselves in compassion’, Jesus modelled love and freewill (islam)
What are religious views against euthanasia?
Taking life is wrong, the sanctity of life and God decides death (Islam)
What are religious views for abortion
‘Clothe yourself in compassion’, freewill and the ‘lesser of two evils’
What are religious views again abortion?
Life begins at conception, so they will be killed and sanctity of life
How does life after death impact Christians?
It prepares them for judgement, makes them good stewards, and helps them believe that there is more to physical life; hope.
What are 2 Christian beliefs about the afterlife?
It is true due to the resurrection of Jesus and that earthly conduct determines destination (Matthew 25)
What are 2 Islam beliefs about the afterlife?
God controls the timing of death and that Jannah (heaven) and Jahannam (hell) exist.
What is the importance of the Sanctity of Life?
Theists will value human life and will allow theists to treat others carefully
