RE Reviewer

• creation ex nihilo: creation out of nothing. Before God created the universe, nothing existed. Only God can create out of nothing.
• evolution: the process of mutation and natural selection which leads to changes in species over time to suit particular environments.
• Imago Dei: in the image of God. The belief that human beings are uniquely a reflection of God’s personhood. Unlike the other animals, human beings are rational, free and moral.
• Inspiration: “God breathed” The belief that the Spirit of God guides an individual to act or write what is good and true.
• Omnipotence: The belief that God is all powerful.
• Revelation: the word used to describe all of the ways in which God makes himself known to human beings. Christians believe that God does this finally and fully in the person of Jesus Christ.
• Stewardship: the duty to care for creation responsibly, as stewards rather than consumers, and to protect it for future generations.
• Transcendence: existing outside of space and time; God exists in a way that makes him nothing like anything else that exists, above and beyond creation.
• Pope Francis - “The Big Bang theory, which proposed today as the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of a divine creator, but depends on it.”
• Charles Darwin: “I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae (a parasitic wasp) with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars.”
• Pope St John Paul: There is no conflict between evolution and the doctrine of faith regarding man and his vocation.
• CCC 2258: “Human life is sacred because from its beginning it involves the creative action of God”
• Genesis 1:27: So God created humankind in his image
• St Catherine of Siena:

  “... Her dignity is that of her creation ... seeing that she is the image

  of God ...

  ... In that same mirror of the goodness of God, the soul knows her own indignity, which is the consequence of her own fault...

  ... By love indeed you created her, by love you have given her a being capable of tasting your eternal Good.”
• CCC 2270: From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be

  recognised as having the rights of a person
• Jeremiah 1:5: “Before i formed you in the womb i knew you”