Creation of the universe: Origins of human life: The value of the world:
They believe it was created in 6 days (6 th day he created Evolution: Stewardship: duty to prot
humans in his image) and rested on the 7 th. ‘in the beginning, - Charles Darwin suggested that as the earth cooled, conditions earth and its environmen
God created the heavens and the earth’ became right to support life DUTY
• fundamentalists believe that: Religious debate on evolution: Dominion: God gave hum
the statements of the Bible are literally true – the creation - Some believe that the origin of human life is exactly as world.
story is exactly how it was created recorded in scripture and who reject the theory of evolution ‘Humans may rule over a
if creation isn’t true then there is no reason to believe in the - Many accept the mainstream scientific view of evolution and teaches that God made h
Bible and what it says, do not believe It should cause conflict with their faith- God superior to the rest of cre
bible is infallible created life and set everything in motion develop over the ‘rule over…every living cre
• Liberals believe that creation story is symbolic- they may course of history
look to science to understand how God created the With dominion and stewa
universe Christian beliefs: responsibility:
• Believe it was designed by God - God created Adam from the soil and breathed life into him- -the world is valuable, pre
given responsibility to look after his environment. ‘work it and be looked after- gift from
THE BIG BANG THEORY: created by a CATHOLIC PRIEST take care of it’ (stewardship) respected for future gene
- The scientific theory of how the universe was created- - -Adam created eve from one of his ribs as one of his ‘helper’ its his creation
created 14 billion years ago from a hot dense (links to theme A and gender) -they believe creation is a
‘something’ Shows that humans are special to God as they were created in his evokes AWE and WONDE
• Many believe in the BBT and also God created it- God image
caused the BBT -Many believe science offers realistic explanations of the origins ’let us be protectors of Go
• Contains scientific truth rather than religious beliefs. of humanity. God ‘used’ evolution Francis) – contemporary v
• Pope Francis supports it ‘work and care for it’ –Ad
Some Christians believe that God intended for humans to
ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION: contrasting
evolve into what we are now and that the plan of creation POLLUTION:
beliefs topic
happened over millions of years rather than 7 days. DOJ: If humans did not lo
-medical and cosmetic testing
Agree with animal experimentation Disagree with animal experimentation or did nothing to stop its
(80 billion animals killed for food every
Humans have dominion- ‘they may rule Every living thing is God’s creation- we year) should expect to be punis
over all the creatures’ should avoid causing harm/ killing his motivates
creation As humans are STEWARD
‘’God created everything for man’ –
Catechism of Catholic Church after it by recycling and re
Allow it for medical reasons (drugs, vaccine Cosmetic testing is unnecessary- Catechism
trials) to ensure preservation of human life says it is wrong to cause harm to animals
‘needlessly’ ‘both their life and death are subject to our They support sustainable
Human life is more valuable than animal Stewardship: humans are meant to ‘work it use’- St Augustine
life – humans made ‘imago dei’ (image of and take care of it’- as stewards we should be -idea of dominion
God), everything is created for man responsible
They believe it was created in 6 days (6 th day he created Evolution: Stewardship: duty to prot
humans in his image) and rested on the 7 th. ‘in the beginning, - Charles Darwin suggested that as the earth cooled, conditions earth and its environmen
God created the heavens and the earth’ became right to support life DUTY
• fundamentalists believe that: Religious debate on evolution: Dominion: God gave hum
the statements of the Bible are literally true – the creation - Some believe that the origin of human life is exactly as world.
story is exactly how it was created recorded in scripture and who reject the theory of evolution ‘Humans may rule over a
if creation isn’t true then there is no reason to believe in the - Many accept the mainstream scientific view of evolution and teaches that God made h
Bible and what it says, do not believe It should cause conflict with their faith- God superior to the rest of cre
bible is infallible created life and set everything in motion develop over the ‘rule over…every living cre
• Liberals believe that creation story is symbolic- they may course of history
look to science to understand how God created the With dominion and stewa
universe Christian beliefs: responsibility:
• Believe it was designed by God - God created Adam from the soil and breathed life into him- -the world is valuable, pre
given responsibility to look after his environment. ‘work it and be looked after- gift from
THE BIG BANG THEORY: created by a CATHOLIC PRIEST take care of it’ (stewardship) respected for future gene
- The scientific theory of how the universe was created- - -Adam created eve from one of his ribs as one of his ‘helper’ its his creation
created 14 billion years ago from a hot dense (links to theme A and gender) -they believe creation is a
‘something’ Shows that humans are special to God as they were created in his evokes AWE and WONDE
• Many believe in the BBT and also God created it- God image
caused the BBT -Many believe science offers realistic explanations of the origins ’let us be protectors of Go
• Contains scientific truth rather than religious beliefs. of humanity. God ‘used’ evolution Francis) – contemporary v
• Pope Francis supports it ‘work and care for it’ –Ad
Some Christians believe that God intended for humans to
ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION: contrasting
evolve into what we are now and that the plan of creation POLLUTION:
beliefs topic
happened over millions of years rather than 7 days. DOJ: If humans did not lo
-medical and cosmetic testing
Agree with animal experimentation Disagree with animal experimentation or did nothing to stop its
(80 billion animals killed for food every
Humans have dominion- ‘they may rule Every living thing is God’s creation- we year) should expect to be punis
over all the creatures’ should avoid causing harm/ killing his motivates
creation As humans are STEWARD
‘’God created everything for man’ –
Catechism of Catholic Church after it by recycling and re
Allow it for medical reasons (drugs, vaccine Cosmetic testing is unnecessary- Catechism
trials) to ensure preservation of human life says it is wrong to cause harm to animals
‘needlessly’ ‘both their life and death are subject to our They support sustainable
Human life is more valuable than animal Stewardship: humans are meant to ‘work it use’- St Augustine
life – humans made ‘imago dei’ (image of and take care of it’- as stewards we should be -idea of dominion
God), everything is created for man responsible
