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Question 1

what are the key words/ meanings

Answer 1

Abortion: The deliberate ending of a pregnancy.

Afterlife: Beliefs about what happens to ‘us’ after our body has died; in many religions this
relates to life after death or immortality in some form.

Animal experimentation: The use of animals for medical research and product testing.

Awe and Wonder: Sense of wonderment at nature; often linked to the feeling that God is
involved/revealed through it.

Big Bang Theory: Scientific theory about the origins of the universe; belief that the universe
began almost 14 billion years ago with a reaction of particles from a singularity followed by a
process of inflation and expansion.

Death: The end of the physical, bodily life.

Dominion: Belief that humans have been given control/charge of the world.

Environment: The world around us; this can be made up natural or artificial surroundings.

Euthanasia: Assisting with the ending of life for a person who is terminally ill or has
degenerative illness; often known as assisted suicide.

Evolution: Scientific theory of the development of species which involves a process of
natural selection and survival of the fittest.

Natural resources: Resources which are found in nature – fossil fuels (eg coal, oil, natural
gas), plants etc.

Pollution: Contamination of an environment with harmful substances.

Quality of life: The standard of health, comfort and happiness/fulfilment experienced by a
person or group.

Responsibility: Having a duty or obligation to act in a certain way.

Sanctity of life: Belief that life is sacred/special because it was created by God, or because
we are each unique individuals.

Scientific: Knowledge based on what can be observed (eg regularities in nature) and
experimentation.

Stewardship: Duty given by God to humankind to look after the created world, and all life
within it.

Question 2

what are key quotes for the key words

Answer 2

The Origins of the Universe

“In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth.”
Genesis 1:1

“god is the creator of all things
surah

big bang theory

Stewardship
“A good man leaves an inheritance for his
children’s children’
Proverbs 13:22

The Lord God took the man and put him in
the Garden of Eden to work it and take care
of it.’
Genesis 2:15

Dominion

“God blessed them saying to the man and
the woman; ‘be fruitful and increase in number. Rule
over the fish in the sea and the birds in the
sky and over every living creature that
moves on the ground’” Genesis 1:28

The Use and Abuse of the Environment

‘You made them rulers over the works of
your hands; you put everything under their feet.’
Genesis 8:6

Pollution
“The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it.”
Psalm 24:1

The Use and Abuse of Animals

“The righteous care for the needs of their
animals.”
Proverbs 12:10

The Origins of Human Life

“God said ‘let us make man in our own
image to have authority over all living things
… and God told man to rule over all the
earth.”
Genesis 1:26-30

Abortion

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew
you, before you were born I set you apart”
Jeremiah 1:5

“It does not matter whether you take away a
life that is born, or destroy one that is
coming to the birth. In both instances,
destruction is murder.”
Tertullian, a Christian writer

Euthanasia

“You shall not kill”
10 Commandments
Exodus 20:13

Death and the Afterlife

“For God so loved the world that he
gave his one and only Son, that whoever
believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life.”
John 3:16

Question 3

what is the big bang

Answer 3

it is a scientific explanation of the origins of the universe