Unit 1 - Part B

Question 1

Creation in Christianity

Answer 1

• God created the universe in six days. Then rested in the seventh
  -day 1, god created light and separated light from darkness, naming light day and darkness night.
  -day 2, sky
  -day 3, land and water and vegetation
  -day 4 sun stars and moon
  -day 5 sea life and birds
  -day 6 animals and humans
  -day 7 rest.
  Christians believe humans have a special relationship with God and the role of humans according to god is stewards.
  ‘Ex nihilo’ creation is out of nothing, no pre existent thing for him to work with.
  Made in gods image.

Question 2

Creation in Hinduism

Answer 2

• creation is a constant cycle
• Brahma creates from himself
• everything is part of Brahma
• universe is preserved by Vishnu, destroyed by shiva , re created by Brahma.
• humans are born, die and the atman (soul) is reborn.
• Vishnu lay on a huge sea snake
• lotus grew from his navel and Brahma was on the flower
• Brahma split the flower into three parts ( heaven, earth, and sky )
• creation does not have a definitive starting point (oscillating universe theory)
• humans are no more or less important than any other beings

Question 3

Evolutionary theory

Answer 3

• biological theory concerning the development of life on earth
• associated with Darwin, ‘origin of species’, and ‘descent of man’ state all living things have a common ancestry
• natural selection, survival of the fittest
• current living things are the product of evolution

Question 4

Problems with the evolutionary theory

Answer 4

• does not provide an answer to how the universe was formed
• does not explain how living things rose from non living
• evidence is not conclusive
• humans aren’t special
• humans have evolved over time
• earth has evolved over millions of years

Question 5

Big bang theory

Answer 5

• explosion happened 13.7 billion years ago
• universe expanded in explosion of heat + energy
• formed galaxies
• force of physics emerge
• at 10 billion years stars and planets formed
• after 2 billion years early forms of life developed

Question 6

Transcendent

Answer 6

Above human understanding

Question 7

Immanent

Answer 7

God is available

Question 8

Omnipotent

Answer 8

Capable of anything

Question 9

Omniscient

Answer 9

All knowing

Question 10

Omnibenevolent

Answer 10

All loving

Question 11

Trinity

Answer 11

God , represented by three things

Question 12

Tawhid

Answer 12

God is one