EOY Exam Y9 Flashcards
(28 cards)
In which book in the bible can you find the creation story?
Genesis
Who first proposed the Big Bang theory?
George lemaitre
What second job did George lemaitre have?
Catholic priest
Creatio ex nihilo means
Creation from nothing
Who proposed the design argument?
William paley
What can be used an evolution proof?
Fossils
What did William paley would say a person would know was designed, even if they had never seen one before?
Watch
What does omnibenevolent
All loving
According to Christian’s which animals were made in the image of god?
Humans
Name a type of religious experience?
Miracle
What are the two types of Christian’s?
Liberal or fundamentalist
What did god make on the first day?
God made light separating it from darkness creating the concept of day and night
What did god make on the second day?
God made the sky
What did god make on the third day?
Dry land, seas, plants and trees
What did god make on the fourth day
Sun, moon , stars
What did god make on the fifth day?
Sea creatures and flying creatures
What did god make on the sixth day?
Land animals and people
What did god make on the seventh day?
Nothing, he rested after six days of hard work
The design argument states that the world must have a designer as it is so complex. One problem with this argument is that some things in nature do not appear well designed. Give an example.
Crane flys as they only live for one day.
Name one other problem with the design argument.
It could be the perfect theory of evolution and not god.
Thomas aquinas thought god that god was the first cause of the universe. Give one reason why he thought god could have caused the universe.
Everything in the universe has a cause and so the only person powerful enough to cause the universe is god. He is omnipotent.
Name one problem with aquinas’s first cause argument.
If everything should have a cause then should god have a cause?
What is idealism or immaterialism
The view that reality consists exclusively of minds and their ideas.
Materialism meaning
Objects (matter) exist independently of the mind