Higher Religious & Philosophical Questions:
Origins
Subject Area
Aim
Outcomes
God the Creator
of the Life
What it is
Describe/ explain the role of God as creator of life and the universe.
Identify and explain the origin of the creation accounts.
Interpretations
of Creation
Accounts
Overall – including your
own opinion
Describe and explain the strengths/weaknesses/challenges/ to the
account(s)
Analyse/Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the explanation of
human life from a religious perspective.
What it is
Describe/ Explain 2 different interpretations of the creation accounts.
General Strengths
Identify and explain the strengths of the different interpretations of
the creation accounts.
General Weaknesses/
Challenges to the different
interpretations of the
Creation Accounts.
Describe/explain the weaknesses/challenges to the interpretations of
the creation accounts.
Sources/Suggested
Content
Genesis 1&2, Brahma,
Waheguru, etc.
Babylonian, Aristotle,
Plato, Kalam Argument,
Enumma Elis etc.
Creationism/Liberalism
Philosophical response
Describe/Explain a different philosophical interpretation
of (a) the creation account.
The Teleological Argument,
Aquinas, Paley, Swinburne,
Polkinghorne etc.
Analyse/ Evaluate a different philosophical interpretation of (a) the
creation account.
Non – Religious response
Describe/ explain a non-religious response to the Teleological
Argument.
David Hume, JS Mill, B
Russell, AJ Ayer
Analyse/ Evaluate a non-religious response to the Teleological
Argument.
Subject Area
Aim
Outcomes
Source/Suggested Content
The Big Bang
Theory and
Evolution
What they are.
Explain what is meant by the theory of the Big Bang and Evolution
especially as a response to the Creation accounts.
BB: Cosmology, LeMaitre,
Hoyle/Bondi/Gold, Hubble
General Strengths of
Arguments
Explain what the strengths of the Big Bang/Evolutionary Theories are.
E: Darwinism, Huxley,
Dawkins,
Models
General Weaknesses of
Arguments
Explain what the weaknesses of the Big Bang/Evolutionary Theories are
Religious response
Explain the(a) religious response to the Big Bang/Evolution
Analyse/Evaluate the(a) religious response to the Big Bang/Evolution
Anthropic
Principle/Providence
Subject Area
Aim
Outcomes
Source/Suggested Content
Compatibility
between Reason
and Faith
What is Reason and Faith
Describe/ Explain the history of the Relationship between Reason and
Faith and the Rise of Science.
Metaphysics, Ptolemy,
Copernicus, Brahe,
Gallileo, Bacon, Newton
Religious Response
Describe and Explain the responses of liberal/creationist Christians to
the Big Bang Theory and the Theory of Evolution.
Non-Religious Response.
Analyse/Evaluate the compatibility of the Teleological Argument from
your own perspective - strengths and weaknesses of the explanation of
human life from a philosophical perspective based on faith.
Analyse/Evaluate the Big Bang Theory – highlight strengths and
weaknesses of the explanation of human life from a Christian (religious)
perspective.
Analyse/Evaluate the theory of Evolution, highlight strengths and
weaknesses of the explanation of human life from a Christian (religious)
perspective.
Analyse/Evaluate the compatibility between Reason and Faith from
your own perspective highlighting the different areas of agreement and
disagreement.
Religious Response
Religious Response
Overall – including your
own opinion