Scientific explanation of the origins of the world
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- Created on: 01-05-16 17:53
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- Scientific explanation of the origins of the world
- Matter is eternal; it can not be created or destroyed so it can only be changed
- 1. About 15 billion years ago = big bang
- 2. After the big bang forces of gravity and other laws of science formed stars and about 5 billion years ago the solar system was formed
- 3. The combination of gases on Earth's surface produced primitive life forms like amobea
- 4. The genetic structure of these life forms produced mutations
- 5. Any change which is better suited will survive over the other characteristic i.e. survival of the fittest
- 6. Over millions of years new life forms were produced leading to vegetation, then invertebrate animals, then vertebrates and then 2.5 million years ago humans
- Evidence for the big bang
- Red shift- red shift from distant galaxies shows the universe is expanding
- Evidence for evolution
- Fossils
- Similarities between life forms
- How scientific explanations can lead to agnosticism or atheism
- Science can explain where the world came from without reference to God
- This can lead to agnosticism as they are unsure if God exists
- Others may be atheists as they can be sure there is not a God otherwise If God exists he would of made the world and he must be the only explanation of the world
- Matter is eternal; it can not be created or destroyed so it can only be changed
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