Matters of life and death
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- Created on: 04-11-16 16:37
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- Matters of life and death
- life after death
- For
- Against
- Many religions have many different ideas but no solid proof
- There is no evidence that Jesus existed let alone rose from the dead
- Near death experiences are unreliable because people have fallible memories
- Could simply be a source of comfort foe the bereaved
- Abortion
- Law on abortion
- the 1967 Abortion Act - it can only be carried out in a medical facility
- Catholic and Evangelical views
- Only good has the right to end pregnancy
- Life begins at conception - so abortion is committing murder
- Everyone has the right to life
- Liberal protestant view
- Jesus told us to 'love thy neighbour' so we should respect the mothers opinion
- Life does not begin at conception
- We should accept the new scientific advances
- Law on abortion
- Origins of the universe
- Creationism
- The belief that God created all life exactly as it says in Genesis
- Believe that when Adam was created on the 6th day God had created the Earth to seem thousands of years old
- Big Bang
- About 13.7 years ago the universe became very compressed which created a giant explosion
- George Lemaitre was a Belgian priest who was one of the first people to prove and accept the Big Bang
- Design
- The science of the Big Bang is correct but God still had input because it is otherwise improbable
- Irreducible complexity-the universe depends on many interacting parts and the removal of one of those parts would mean that the whole system stopped
- Specified complexity - the patterns in living things, for example DNA
- Creationism
- Evolution
- For (science)
- After thee Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago, the combination of gases and the Earths surface produced basic single cell organisms
- humans evolve from primates and then natural selection picks the best
- Against (Christian)
- Evolution proves Genesis wrong
- Creationists say that the fossil record doesn't have sufficient evidence
- Design theorists believe that God created each species and let them evolve
- For (science)
- After thee Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago, the combination of gases and the Earths surface produced basic single cell organisms
- humans evolve from primates and then natural selection picks the best
- For (science)
- For (science)
- Stewardship
- Pollution
- -Encourage recycling and no littering
- -Promote the use of power from waste plants that produce electricity from human waste
- Global warming
- - Reduce carbon emmisions
- - Use tidal, wind and solar power
- To keep the Earth as we found it
- Natural resouces
- Renewable energy
- promote hydrogen or battery powered cars
- recycling materials that are finite such as steel.
- Animal rights
- Against
- For
- Animals were made by god and therefore they are sacred
- Animals have souls too
- Pollution
- Sanctity of life
- Sanctity of life comes directly from God so we must obey it
- the only exceptions are for self defence and in war - because ones life takes precedence over others
- Euthanasia
- Against
- Life is sacred to God - only he can take it away
- Euthanasia is murder
- For
- Modern medical care warps wishes about death
- 'Love thy neighbour' is euthanasia
- Against
- life after death
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