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Big Bang Theory
The scientific understanding that the universe formed from a massive sxplosion
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Cosmological Argument
Belief that everything in the universe has a cause and that first cause was God.
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Ontological Argument
St Anselm: 'Than that nothing greater can be conceived' - There is nothing greater than God
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Teleological Argument
William Paley - A Watch and David Hume - A Machine ... Work together perfectly, like the world so must have a creator
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Creationist Christians
Believe that the Biblical Accounts of the Creation story are literally true
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Design Argument
Belief that the world is a result of a design by an intelligent being - God, there is no other explanation for it's complexity
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Dominion
To have authority or control over something
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Evolution
Development of humanity over time, Darwin came up with this theory and natural selection
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Ex nihlo
Out of nothing
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Stewardship
Responsibility to take care of the world and everything in it
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Liberal Christians
See the creation story as a poetic way of describing important truths but do not take it literally
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Cosmological Argument

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Belief that everything in the universe has a cause and that first cause was God.

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Ontological Argument

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Teleological Argument

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Creationist Christians

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