The big bang

• george lemaitre (catholic priests), proposed idea of big bang which was developed by stephen hawking
• Hawking proposed all in matter in universe orginally focuse in small point.
• around 13.7 billion years ago was 'big bang' matter rapidly expanded, forming stars + galaxies over time.
• Earth is a lot older than religious explanations suggest
• what did Pope Francis say about the big bang?

  'The big bang theory, which is proposed today as the origin of the world, does not contricted the intervention of a divine creator but depends on it' - Pope Francis
• catholics believe that the big bang theory could be how God created the world
• Dawin traced the evolution of humans back through ape-like species and reptiles all to a single bacterium
• scientific evidence supports the theory of evaluation
• natural selection?


  a process in which animals that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive
• Humanist?


  a non - religious person who follows the principles of humanism
• 'There is no conflict between evolution and the doctrine of faith regarding man and his vocation Pope St John Paul 11
• The catholic church accepts the theory of evolution but argues that it does not mean that humans are sacrad
• Catholics believe that the idea of God having a loving plan for humans is whats important, rather than the process of evolution itself
• Many fundamentalists Christians reject evolution and see it as undermining God's role as creator of the universe