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Religion and Life Theme B Religion and Life Theme B The origins and value of the universe The origins of the universe, including: • religious teachings about the origins of the universe, and different interpretations of these • the relationship between scientific views, such as the Big Bang theory, and religious views. • The value of the world and the duty of human beings to protect it, including religious teaching about stewardship, dominion, responsibility, awe and wonder. • The use and abuse of the environment, including the use of natural resources, pollution. The use and abuse of animals, including: • animal experimentation • the use of animals for food. The origins and value of human life • The origins of life, including: • religious teachings about the origins of human life, and different interpretations of these • the relationship between scientific views, such as evolution, and religious views. • The concepts of sanctity of life and the quality of life. • Abortion, including situations when the mother's life is at risk. • Ethical arguments related to abortion, including those based on the sanctity of life and quality of life. • Euthanasia. • Beliefs about death and an afterlife, and their impact on beliefs about the value of human life. How to use this to make it stick! 1. Read through the Religion and Life information 2. Highlight the key information 3. Create a revision aid Test yourself on it (flash card, 1) Which one of the following means being gently and painlessly put mind map, acronym, to death? A) Stewardship B) Euthanasia C) Evolution D) Dominion cheat sheet etc) 2) Give two religious beliefs about pollution. 4. Test yourself on the 3) Explain two similar religious beliefs about the use of animals for revision aid (cover up food. and say it out loud > 4) Explain two religious beliefs about the afterlife. Refer to scripture or cover up and write it sacred writings in your answer. out) 5)‘Evolution proves that religious beliefs about the origins of life are 5. Practice the past wrong.’ Evaluate this statement. paper questions (without the revision Based on my revisions and testing I need to focus on: aid) 6. Review your answers with your revision aid (add anything you missed out) and rate your progress Origins of Christian view Buddhist view Non-religious Christian Buddhist view Non-religious life Contemporary British view Contemporary Attitudes/scientific British Attitudes The origins • Christians believe that God created • Buddhists have no specific creation • The Big Bang Theory /scientific the universe story/the Buddha thought that ideas says that the Universe of the • Genesis 1 says that God created about creation were speculation and not began 20 billion years The use and • God gave • As humans must live many • Pollution means humankind times the natural world there is too much of universe, the universe including the world helpful because they would not satisfy ago. and it’s inhabitants in 6 days and everybody which casts doubt on • There was nothing and abuse of the stewardship- the should be respected and something which is including: rested on the 7th this is known as religious beliefs then a huge explosion environment, responsibility to cared for, it is important toxic and causes look after the to protect it for future damage to the religious the creation theory • Buddhism teaches that all things are made clouds of dust and • Fundamentalist Christians dependant upon conditions (this is known gas and over time the including the world generations environment teachings interpret the bible literally they as dependant rising universe formed. use of natural • Modern Christians • Thy Dalai lama said • Many people feel it have seen the Destruction of nature and is ok to use natural about the believe the world was created in 7 • Buddhists teachings neither explicitly • The earliest signs of life days support or deny the Big Bang theory. appeared millions of resources, need to heal the natural resources results resources such as origins of the • Liberalists interpret the bible • Buddhists teaches about the cycle of years before land and pollution. world and look from ignorance, greed and crops, wood and coal after the lack of respect for the as they are available universe, and symbolically, they believe that God Samsara, which is repeating cycle of sea settled may have created the universe but birth, life, death and rebirth • The earth was hot, environment Earth’s living things. • However many different through the big bang theory and • Both teachings are relevant to Buddhist covered in primordial Conservation is a question people feel that of our own survival using natural interpretatio that the creation theory may not thinking about the origins of the soup-mix of liquids, be true universe chemicals, minerals, resources, humans ns of these proteins and amino acids. have abused the • These fused to give the environment first life forms and from The use and • Many Christians • Many Western Buddhists • Animal rights are these all life developed, eat no red meat on are vegetarian out of the rights animals including humans. abuse of Fridays many eat respect for life-animals have to live without • How can a totally animals, no ,eat at all are also part of the cycle cruelty and to have structured world come during Lent- in of rebirth. good treatment from chaos? including: both cases out of • The skilful means of • UK laws protect respect for the keeping the first precept domestic animals The origins Comes from religions and holy books- • Buddhism does not include belief in a • Scientists are unsure animal from God and personal experiences God or creator what caused the Big sacrifice of Jesus of non-harming would • Animals have many of the Religion explains • It doesn’t teach the universe has an Bang experimentati on Good Friday encourage vegetarianism uses as pets, • Some support • Some support medical helpers, work, universe, origin- a point in time when the universe • Some scientists believe on and the • “God created man in his own image” suddenly came into being from nothing there maybe a number of medical experiments if it is providers, food including: the Genesis without a cause universes, creating a use of animals experiments beneficial to human beings experimental test • God allowed eating but not cosmetic testing subjects relationship • Liberalists interpret the bible • Buddhists view the universe a bit like multiverse where one for food symbolically, they believe that God the cycle of life universe grows from animals in the old • ‘All living things fear being • Its cruel to animals between may have created the universe but • They suggest they universe came into another which is similar testament as they beaten by clubs’ especially battery were not created farming and scientific through the big bang theory and existence, expand, evolve and then to Buddhists teachings that the creation theory may not wither and die over and over again • Scientific evidence in Gods image methods of killing views, such be true without beginning or end. One universe supports theory to know The origins of • Some liberal • Evolution reflects the • evolution is a as the Big • Fundamentalist Christians simply replaces the next one. the universe is expanding Christians accept cycle of decay, death and natural process; interpret the bible literally they • Buddhist may accept the Big Bang • They can track the life, including: evolution - God rebirth which is a core evolution was a Bang theory, believe the world was created in 7 theory expansion back to a The relationship created the planet Buddhist belief result of chance not and religious days singular point-explosions from nothing but • Creation stories are planned by God. cause everything to be between used the process regarded as mythological Creatures changed views. flung outwards. scientific views, of evolution to • The Buddha said that to fit the • Background microwave create and develop anything can come into environment, not radiation from the such as life, possibly as existence when all the placed on earth by explosion can still be evolution, and the scientific necessary conditions are God. If humans have detected in space theories describe. there evolved they were religious views. The creation story • When conditions change not made in God’s is just a story. so do the things they give image. The value of • Christians believe they have a duty • Buddhists teach that the world is • The world is important, The concepts of to look after the world valuable and belongs to nobody as we as for humans both now and • Some fundamentalist rise to. For example when • Charles Darwin the world and (stewardship) and treat it with humans have a responsibility to look in the future sanctity of life Christians believe in seeds germinate and grow suggested the world the creation story, it respect. Life is sacred after it • Some feel humans have and the quality into plants when light, was a place of the duty of happened exactly • Humans have dominion (power) over • The world provides Buddhists with all the right to rule the oxygen and moisture are change and that a human beings nature by permission of God the conditions (challenges and help) that world due to their of life. how it happened in present and die if those huge variety of the Bible – God conditions are removed. creatures is the • The world s beauty fills people with are needed in order to develop perfect intelligence to protect it, create ‘male and awe making many think of God and wisdom and compassion to become • Some feel humans have This just happens
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