U2RE Life&Death Flashcards
Definitions: Environmental Sustainability
Ensuring that the demands placed on natural resources can be met without reducing capacity to allow all people and other species of animals, as well as plant life, to live well, now and in the future
Example – looking after the planet by planting more trees
Keywords: afterlife
Life after death. Example- Heaven or Hell
Keywords: euthanasia
From Greek, eu ‘good’ and Thanatos ‘death’. Sometimes referred to as ‘mercy killing’. Example-‘Thou shall not kill’
Keywords: Evolution
The process by which different living creatures are believed to have developed from earlier less complex forms during the history of the earth. Examples- This scientific theory for origins of the world believed by many Christians and Muslims.
Keywords: Abortion
When a pregnancy is ended so that it does not
result in the birth of a child
Example – Catholic Christians believe abortion is
wrong because ‘Thou shall not kill’
Keywords: Quality of LIfe
The extent to which life is meaningful and
pleasurable
Example – Some people might believe being
paralysed and unable to move or do regular things
is a poor quality of life
Keywords: Sancity of LIfe
The belief that life is precious, or sacred.
Example - For many religious believers, only human
life holds this special status
Keywords: Soul
The spiritual aspect of a being; that which
connects someone to God. The soul is often
regarded as non-physical and as living on after
physical death, in an afterlife
Example – Christians believe the soul leaves the
body and goes to heaven or hell
Orgin Of The World: Christian belief
Christians believe that the world was created within six days as it says in book on Genesis. God created the world
Orgin Of The World: uslims belifes
Muslims believe that Allah created the world as in the Qur’an is says “Allah created the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, in six days”
Origins Of The World: Humanists beliefs
Humanists believe in the Big Bang creating all the universes and earth also with the addition of evolution more scientific backed up statistics then any religious belief.
What is the Design Argument
The design argument is an argument that all humans face it’s basically the argument for the existence of God according to one version the universe as a whole is like a machine machines, have intelligent designers like effects have like causes, therefore the universe as a whole has an intelligent designer, which is God
Stewardship; Christians
Christians believe that disintegration of the natural world is our responsibility that God left us in the faith that we will take care of his creation
Stewardship: Muslims
Muslims believe that humans are stewards or Khalifahs of our creation. They must maintain the fitra or balanced the world. “ All creation and command belong to him”
Stewardship: Humanists
They believe that we have to protect and preserve the environment, and that includes all life including
· Sanctity Of Life: Christians
They believe human life is sacred, and is a gift from God