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Environmental and Medical Ethics
- Stewardship and the Environment
- Christian beliefs...
- Quotes
- Then the Lord God placed the
man in the Garden of Eden to
cultivate it and guard it. -
Genesis 2:15
- God looked at everything
he had made, and he was
very pleased. - Genesis 1:31
- The responsibility to be God's stewards and to leave
the earth a better place than they found it means that
Christians should try to reduce pollution and preserve
resources
- Christians should show stewardship by working to
share the Earth's resources more fairly and improve
the standard of living in LEDCs.
- They will be judged on their
behaviour as stewards
- Islam beliefs...
- Muslims should show stewardship by working to share the
Earth's resources more fairly and improve the standard of
living in LEDCs.
- They will be judged on
their behaviour
- Muslims should try
to reduce pollution
and preserve
resources
- The threat of pollution
- Deforestation
- Global warming
- Acid Rain
- Environment and Creation
- Non-religious arguments
(environment)
- Government Action
- Science and Technology
- Alternative lifestyles
- Christian teachings
- Environment
- It must be respected by humans
because it has been made by God
and it is a gift from God.
- God created the environment as
something which is good and
sacred therefore Christians have a
duty to preserve the environment.
- Creation
- Some Christians
- Believe that Genesis accounts
of creation in 6 days are
scientific fact (creationists).
- Many Christians
- The earth and everything was made
by God in the way he intended it to
be.
- Islam teachings
- Environment
- The universe and everything in it was
created by Allah as a place perfectly
suited for human life.
- Creation
- The whole environment must be respected
because it has been made by Allah as a gift to
humans
- Allah has made a unity
and balance increation,
so Muslims have a duty
to preserve the
environment and keep
the balance.
- Muslims believe Allah
created the world and
everything in it, so it
was good and sacred
therefore it must be
respected and cared
for by humans.
- Medical treatments
- Infertility
- Options
- Surrogacy
- Embryo Donation
- IVF (In-vitro Fertilization)
- AIH (Artificial
insemination by
husband)
- Non-religious beliefs...
- Psychological problems of the surrogate giving up their baby
- Children not knowing their
genetic parents if a donor
used
- Christians beliefs...
- Roman Catholic
- Life is given by God
and that no-one has a
right to children
- Other Christians
- They allow IVF and AIH
- They have major concerns about
embryo technology though. They
feel it leads to problems of identity
and legal problems.
- Muslim beliefs...
- Most
Muslims
accept IVF
and AIH
- Although Islamic lawyers are also
against embryo technology for
legal and identity reasons.
- Transplant surgery
- Non-religious beliefs...
- For
- Is an effective
method of curing
life-threating or
disabling diseases
- Allows people to
help others after
their death
- Uses organs that would
otherwise disappear
- Brings life out of death
- Against
- Encourages black market sales
- Very expensive
- Christians beliefs...
- Most Christians agree
with transplant surgery,
but would disagree with
organs being brought
from poor people.
- Bible says the poor shouldn't be exploited
- Leaving
organs for
others is a
way of loving
your
neighbour.
- Some Christians agree with
transplant using organs from
living people but not from
dead people.
- Transplanting organs from the
dead to the living is 'playing God'
which is a sin
- Other Christians
don't agree with
transplant at all and
will not carry a donor
card
- Believes it ignores the sanctity of life
- Muslim beliefs...
- Agree
- Some Muslim lawyers have said it is allowed
- Islam aims to do good and help people
- Disagree
- Shari'ah teaches that nothing should be
removed from the body after death
- Qur'an teaches
that only God has
the right to give
and take life
- The problem of scare natural resources
- Renewable resources
- Are those that replace
themselves after they have
been used, they won't die out
so they can be used freely
- Non-renewable resources
- Those that will run out after they
have been used e.g. oil, gas, coal,
iron and tin.
- As the population grows, we increase the
rate in which we use the earth's natural
resources. Which is not good!