Theme B quotations

• 3 Quotations to support the Big Bang theory - from Quran


  1)Did the unbelievers not realise that the heavens and the Earth were one solid mass then we told them apart and made every living being out of water? Will they then not believe that we created all of this?

  
  

  2) and heaven we made it with our own power, and we have the power to do so

  
  

  3) then he returned to heaven while it was all smoke.
• Islamic quotation to contradict the Big Bang theory


  Is command when he intends anything is only to say be so it is
• Fundamentalist Chrsitains quotation for how creation was done:


  "Then god commanded, Let there be.....and it was done"
• Christian quotations to show what God thinks about the world:


  "And he was very pleased" / "God was pleased with what he saw"

  "On the seventh day God finished what he had been doing and stopped working"
• What does the Hebrew "youm" mean


  Day/ period of time
• Atheists quotations for creation:

  "Because there is no law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself" - Stephen Hawkins
• Catholic quotations on abortion


  " human life should be respected and protected from the moment of contraception"

  "You knit me together in my mothers womb"

  "Be fruitful and multiply"
• Christian quotations on abortion (Methodists)


  "It is simply impossible to identify the moment human life begins"

  "Love God and love your neighbour as yourself"

  "Love thy neighbour"

  "Lesser of two evils"
• Muslims quotations on abortion (even though not specified in Quaran)


  "Do not kill your children for fear of poverty -we shall provide for them and you. Killing them is a great sin"
• Pope Francis quotation on the environment


  "The earth, our home is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth"
• Christian quotations for taking care of the environment


  1. "The earth is the Lords, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it" - Psalm 24:1

  
  

  2. "God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

  3. 29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so."

  
  

  4. "Love thy neighbour"

  
  

  5. "The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work and take care of it"

  
  

  6. "Created in the image of God"

  
  

  7) "God saw all he had made and it was very good"
• Christian quotations about awe and wonder


  1) "how majestic your name is in all the earth"

  2) "his eternal power ... have been clearly seen"

  3)" the heavens declare the glory of God"
• Christian quotations about the use of animals for food

  1) "everything that lives and moves will be good for you"

  2) "just as I gave you the green plants I give you everything"
• Christian quotations for animal experimentation


  1) "do not muzzle an ox whilst it's treading out the grain"

  2) "the righteous care for the needs of their animals"
• Islamic quotations for the use of animals for food


  1) Quaran 16:115 —> prohibits the eating if pig meat

  2) "whoever kills a sparrow or anything bigger than that without a just cause, God will hold him accountable on the Day of Judgement"

  3) it is God who provides livestock for you"

  4) " all the creatures that crawl on the Earth and those who fly with their wings are communities like yourselves"
• Biblical quotations on euthanasia


  For:

  - "love thy neighbour"

  -"you may eat the fruit of any tree" —> shows aged has granted free will

  
  

  Against:

  - "thou shall not kill"

  -"I give kid and I take life away"

  -"for I know the plans I have for you"
• Islamic quotations on euthanasia:


  - "do not take life which Allah has made scared"

  -"no souls may die in decor with Gods permission at a predestined time"