Term 1-4 Did Darwin kill god? Flashcards
What did Philo make of the bible’s contradictions in the Christian creation stories?
Believes that this is a clue of how to read the bible; one is a literal depiction of what happened and the other is meant to convey a teaching or message
How does Augustine interpret the Bible?
He believes that the bible should not be taken literally but rather theologically reflected on
What did Ussher try to propose?
That the world was created at around 4000BC
What is Empirical evidence to disprove Usshers theory?
Fossils, the age goes far past Ussher’s dating
What made many Christians outrage at evolutionism in the industrial revolution?
Darwin’s evidence shows that we are in fact related to apes, which many found disgusting
Why did Darwin lose his faith?
His daughter got a fever and died 2 weeks later, the injustice of the situation broke his faith
How does ‘The genesis flood’ (written in the 1960s) explain dinosaurs?
It states that dinosaurs did exist and lived alongside humans but were wiped out by a flood
What is Intelligent Design?
A theory stating that god created the world but is also making adjustments along the way
What is ‘Selfish gene’?
Everything that lives has been in competition with each other for millions of years, explaining why things are the way they are
What was surprising about the human genome?
There are way less than we expected, we thought there would be 100,000 but we only have 20,000 genes. Rice has more genes than us
What point is Michael Ruse making when he says ‘science is science is science’?
Science neither proves nor disproves God and the 2 are relatively unrelated
