Creation

Question 1

What is the Christian creation story?

Answer 1

• In Genesis 1 it says God created the World in 6 days and rested on the seventh. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth.”
• It also describes the creation of the first two humans adam and eve “God created mankind in his own image”

Question 2

What is a literalist Christian view on creation? (4)

Answer 2

Takes the Bible account literally
- World was created in six 24 hr periods
- Adam was made from the dust
- Eve was from from Adam’s rib
- Denie science

Question 3

What is a liberalist Christian view on creation? (5)

Answer 3

The story is not a literal account but poetic
- God made the world
- He used the natural processes he created
- World was made in 6 periods (not 24hrs) as when the Bible was written the word day meant period of time
- science and religion fit together

Question 4

What do Christians believe about creation? (4)

Answer 4

• God made everything for a purpose
• The beginning of the world was not accidental ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth’
• The world was made exnihilo - out of nothing
• Humans share a responsibility for the earth as they are made in God’s own image

Question 5

What is the Muslim creation story? (6)

Answer 5

• “he it is who created the heavens and the Earth in 6 days”
• The angels were sent to bring 7 handfuls of earth - each a different colour
• Out of this Adam was made
• From his side Eve was made
• They lived in paradise where they could do anything except eat one fruit of a tree
• After being tempted and disobeying Allah, Allah placed them outside of paradise

Question 6

What does humanists think about creation? (3)

Answer 6

• Understand the world through science as religious explanations are unreliable
• There is plenty of evidence to support the world forming itself through gradual processes over billions of years
• Believe evolution and The Big Bang Theory

Question 7

What is the theory of evolution?

Answer 7

All living creatures have evolved from primitive forms over millions of years.

Question 8

What is the Big Bang theory?

Answer 8

14 billion years ago all matter and energy in the universe was at a point of infinite density and temperature . It then expanded rapidly . Eventually stars, galaxies and planets formed. The expansion was the beginning of time and continues to this day.