Origins of life, Abortion, Euthanasia, Death & Afterlife

Cards (10)

  • Mutation: the changing of the structure of a gene, resulting in a variant form that may be transmitted to subsequent generations, caused by the alteration of single base units in DNA, or the deletion, insertion, or rearrangement of larger sections of genes or chromosomes.
  • Adaptation: A characteristic that improves an individual's ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment.
  • abortion: termination of pregnancy usually before the foetus is 24 weeks old
  • quality of life: the general wellbeing of a person in relation to their health and happiness
  • active euthanasia: The ending of a life by a deliberate action, such as by giving a patient a fatal injection.
  • passive euthanasia: allowing a terminally ill person to die of natural causes by withdrawing or witholding medical treatment
  • Resurrection: The belief that, after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised
  • Genesis 2:7: "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul"
  • Daniel 12:2: "Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt."
  • Ecclesiastes 3: 1-2: "There is a time for everything. A time to be born and a time to die."