RE -- Life and Death (conflicting views on creation)
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- Created on: 21-10-18 08:13
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- RE -- Life and death (conflicting views on creation)
- Big Bang theory
- Evidence= Cosmic background radiation
- Red shift
- Everything came from a 'primeval atom'
- Evidence= Cosmic background radiation
- Stephen hawking on did God create the universe
- If the laws of nature are fixed, why do we need a God?
- Time didn't exist before the Big Bang, so God didn't have time to make the universe
- "We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe"
- Darwin's theory of evolution
- Natural selection= Different rates of survival and reproduction for animals with different adaptations
- Survival fo the fittest= Way of describing natural selection, only the best suited survive, handing down their genes
- Finches= Finches on different islands have different types of beak depending on the food source
- Richard Dawkins
- Strong atheist, he believes religion is "the great cop-out"
- Created a Neo-darwinist approach to the value of life
- No need to promote a creator, evolution explains it
- Purpose fo life is gene-replication
- Consciousness evolved to aid survival and replication
- Religious view= Everything planned, all creation has purpose, over 7 days, God caring, humans special, we have responsibility, destiny + life after death, rests on faith in God
- Christian's beliefs are often threatened by science. For example, fundamentalists believe the world is 10,000 years old, however this contrasts with science
- Non-religious view= Random, no purpose, 6 billion years, nature bloody, we are animals 98% same as chimps, no role, we just die, rests on scientific findings
- "God is no longer needed as an explanation" - Peter Atkinson
- "Evolution is a marvellous expression of how God is working in the world"- Arthur Peacocke
- Assimilation=Science only tells us some of the story
- "The thumb alone would convince me of God's existence" - Isaac Newton
- William Paley watchmaker analogy
- He said that if you found a watch on the street, you would assume that it had a designer and creator
- In the same way, the world, infinitely more complex then a watch must have a creator, could not be random
- He said that if you found a watch on the street, you would assume that it had a designer and creator
- Big Bang theory
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