Learning ObjectivesWT: To explore reasons for creation

WA: To be able to describe how the world was created.

WB: To be able to explain different arguments about the creation of the world.

DO NOW -Watch the clip make notes in your Draft book and answer the following question:

What is amazing about the world?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU

Title: How did the world begin?(copy in neat book)

Lesson Objective: To explore different creation theories

BRIDGES: reasoning

C/L Wednesday, April 29, 2020

How did the world begin? (make notes in neat book)

The question above is an example of an ultimate question.Add to your glossary:Ultimate question- A question so difficult that has no definite answer; people may believe it is true or false but they can't tell for sure.

Aristotle (neat book)

Aristotle claimed that God has always been around. No one caused God and that the world has always been here.

STRETCH: Do you agree with Aristotle?Task 1: In full sentences, explain your thoughts on this theory. Do you agree? Explain why.

The Uncaused Cause theory(neat book)

St Thomas Aquinas (neat book)

Aquinas explained that something could not have come from nothing. Every effect has a cause. The whole life is a chain of cause and effect. Therefore, the universe must have been caused by something which existed before it. There has to be a cause that began everything – a first cause.

Do you agree with St Thomas of Aquinas?

The Cosmological Theory

Watch the video and answer the question in your draft book:

How did the world begin?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU

Task 2: Read the article opposite and answer the questions below in full sentences in your

neat book (see example below highlighted)

1.Who was Aquinas?

2. What is the cause and effect argument based upon?

3. Explain what Aquinas meant when he said that ‘something could not have come from nothing’.

4. If God created the universe, then who created God?

Article: St Thomas Aquinas:The Cosmological Argument

St Thomas Aquinas used the cosmological argument to claim that God exists. It is an argument based upon the universe (the cosmos) itself.

Aquinas explained that something could not have come from nothing. Every effect has a cause.

The whole life is a chain of cause and effect. Therefore, the universe must have been caused by something which existed before it. There has to be a cause that began everything – a first cause.

Aquinas believed that this ‘first cause’ must have been God.

Critique (neat book)

You should always critique in Religious studies –This is fault finding, casting doubts and making judgements, it can also involve giving praise.

What are the critiques so far of Aristotle and Aquinas? (Answer in your Draft book)

INDEPENDENT RESEARCHMake an online research and refer to your previous notes to respond to the following questions in your

neat book.

• What are the different theories of creation?• Which theory is the most realistic and why?• Did God create the Universe?• How do we know that God created us? • Who are Adam and Eve?STRETCH: Write down information about a creation story from any world religion and compare it to another world religion so you can compare and contrast similarities and differences