1. Give definitions Give an opinion and justify that opinion Explain religious attitudes Respond to a statement – 2 sides

5. Can you guess what these terms mean?

6. Believing that God doesn’t exist The belief that God is all good The belief that God is all powerful The belief that God sees and knows everything Not being sure if God exists Write the correct definition onto the worksheet Someone who believes in God

7. When you die, you die. There’s no afterlife! I definitely believe that God exists I’m really not sure if there is a God I know that God created the world. Sometimes I think there’s a God sometimes I’m not so sure

9. Can you think of 4… 1.Science explains how the world came into existence 2.There isn’t any evidence for the existence of God 3.Events and experiences that believers say are evidence are just coincidences 4.Pain and suffering in the world prove that God doesn’t exist

10. agnosticism a)What does the term agnosticism mean? b)Do you believe there is a God? Justify your answer c)Explain why an atheist might not believe in God. d)‘God didn’t create the world?’ Do you agree? Who might disagree with you and why?

16. a)What does the term atheism mean? b)Do you think that it is right to baptise children? c)How might Christian parents encourage their child to believe in God? d)‘Parents should not force religion on their children’. Do you agree? Who might disagree with you and why?

20. Something that seems to break a law of science and makes you think only God could have done it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX7kFdmruKA

22. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8bJCEzoLDo&feature=related 5’04 Virgin Mary crying

24. An attempt to contact God, usually through words When your life is changed by giving yourself to God The feeling of the presence of something greater than you

27. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCbpc K9ZHGM Write 4 lines of an example of each of the different types of prayer.

28. a)What does the term conversion mean? b)Do you think that prayer is a waste of time? Give reasons for your answer c)Explain with examples, how having a religious experience can lead to, or support, belief in God d)‘Numinous experiences are nothing to do with God’. DO you agree? Who would disagree with you?

34. The universe is too complex to be designed by any being other than God Design is the result of intelligent thought The universe has the appearance of design Therefore God exists This suggests that a being with intelligence and thought designed the universe Put the statements into order:

35. a)What does the term numinous mean? b)Do you think the world was designed? Give reasons for your answer. c)Explain Paley’s watch analogy d)‘The design argument fails to provide convincing proof of the existence of God’. Do you agree? Who might disagree?

37. Choose any object in the room. How did it get here?

38. Nothing can happen by itself The universe cannot have happened by itself Therefore, God exists A very powerful cause was necessary to bring the universe into bringing This cause has to be God Everything that happens must be caused by something else

41. ‘In the cosmos as we experience it, it is obvious to us that some things change. Now, whatever changes must be changed by another. And if that other itself changes then that too must be changed by another. But this cannot go on to infinity…you eventually have to arrive at something that is unchanging. This is God’ Task: What is Aquinas saying? Eventually there has to be something which is the first cause

43. Just because everything In our world seems to have a cause doesn’t mean the universe has to have a cause Even if the universe was caused by something…it isn’t definitely God..

44. a)What does the term prayer mean? b)Do you believe God caused the universe? Give reasons for your answer. c)Explain the causation argument. d) ‘The world was definitely designed’. Do you agree? Who might disagree with you?

46. The idea that an explosion of matter took place about 15 billion years ago And from this explosion, the universe came into being. It continues to expand and evolve without any involvement from an outside power.

47. After studying animals and insect life from many different countries I came to the conclusion that all living things have evolved over a period of time to suit the environment they live in. According to modern scientists, apes have genetic material in common with human beings – this suggests that human beings evolved from apes. This suggests that God did not create all life uniquely, but that it evolved from one source

49. You can believe in God and believe in these theories! The Big Bang must have been part of God’s plan. I’m a Creationist! These scientific theories are all wrong! Everything written in Genesis is completely true! There was no big bang! SO, some Christians believe that you can believe in God and these scientific theories. Other Christians believe that these theories are wrong and the Bible tells us how the world began.

51. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFlVr3ysC y0

52. If there is a God.. can you think of examples of prayers that he might not be able to answer? Why?

53. Maybe sometimes God answers prayers in ways we aren’t expecting Sometimes God’s answer is no.. God isn’t there to give us everything we want Some Christians feel that their trust in God has been really tested if they feel their prayers haven’t been listened to.

54. i)‘Unanswered prayers prove that God does not exist’. Do you agree? Give reasons for your opinion Yes I agree/I disagree – give 3 reasons ii)Who might disagree with you and why. ______ would disagree with me - give 3 reasons

56. Actions performed by humans that cause suffering Things that cause suffering but have nothing to do with humans

58. Can you rearrange the following words to make a sentence about evil and suffering?

60. God is supposed to be _____________ ______________ ____________ If he was omni-benevolent, he would……. If he is omniscient he would… If he is omnipotent he would… Therefore both God and evil and suffering cannot exist Evil and suffering do exist Therefore, God cannot exist

62. The idea that human beings are free to make their own choices

65. What could possible explanations be?

67. a)What does the term moral evil mean? b)Do you think that killing people is always evil and wrong? c)Explain how Christians would explain the existence of evil and suffering in the world d)God and evil cannot both exist. Do you agree? Who would disagree with you and why?

71. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx87be_34Do http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4OAUa8bo14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu0uzDGDLYwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu0uzDGDLYw Eastenders Lucas interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCI9ZQjb1LM&NR=1

73. c) Explain how media programmes can affect a person’s belief in God