Religion and Science Mindmap

Religion and Science Mindmap

1. The Big Bang Theory

   • No time or space before
   • No sound during explosion
   • Scienists trying to figure out what exactly happened
   • A small atom explode causing the big bang, but where did the atom come from
   • Matter expanded cooled and created the universe
   • Universe was born
   • still many unanswered questions

2. Other Theories

   • Hubble : Discovery that distant galaxies in every direction are moving away
   • Penzias and Wilson : Heard an echo from the Bug Bang from their satellite dish
   • The Big Crunch : The idea that the universe has a maximum expansion and it will then contract back to nothing
   • Higgs Boson Particle and CERN: Crashing of protons together to see if they create a matter and trying to disprove God as being the creator of the Universe

3. Origin

   • Science explains that our world was created by The Big Bang Theory. An atom which came from the nothingness and exploded causing it to form our universe
   • Science explains humanity through evolution where we evolved from apes.
   • Religion explains our world was created by God in 7 days.
   • Religion explains Humanity where God created Mankind in his own image (Adam and Eve)

4. Views from both sides and together

   • Religion: 1) James Usher - 400 years? - Bible only refers back to 4000 years 2) Edumund Gosse - Fossils trick us, it is God's test - Literalist 3) St Thomas Aquinas - Creation story is true 4) Ken ham - Evolution has ruined religion, we need to go back to the bible.
   • Religion and Science : 1) John Polkenghorne - Religion=Why? Science=How? 2) Intelligent Design - Everything has a intelligent explanation - God made The Big Bang Theory occur 3) Darwin - Started off questioning religion, but come up with the evolutionary theory
   • Science: 1) Richard Dawkins - Evolution - No God - Happened by chance, religion is out os date 2) Bill Nye - Too much evidence from science for religion to be true 3) Christopher Hitchens - Religion is not necessary and was created by man 4) Stephen Hawkins - God is irrelavant due to science.

5. Animals and the environment

   • Religion states that Adam was given responsibilty to rule over animals
   • Animals apparently feel pain and loss like us so we shouls treat them equally
   • We use animals for medical testing which benefits us
   • God would want us to look after his creation of the world.
   • The environment should be treated with more respect as it is key to human survival.