Jesus had this massive idea to try and explain to people. To help them get it he gave lots of pictures. Try and work out what you think the ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ really is…
To post your paragraph click on ‘leave a reply’ below. Just put your initials in the name box, your school email (it won’t come up) and leave the web page blank, then paste your answer from word or pages… Try and make your answer the very best you can, it will be a major part of your final S2 report…
Thank You 
The Big Bang: What was it? When was it? Why do so many of us believe in it?
You need to answer this as if it was an 6 mark question and be confident that you are going to get full marks. Expect to talk about Hydrogen atoms, gravity, cooling and gases. Obviously you need to give more information than this poster.
With religion coming under increasing attack from atheists and sceptics, The Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, goes into the lion’s den, putting his faith publicly on the line by debating with some of the sharpest critics of his faith. Howard Jacobson believes ritual demeans religion, Alain de Botton doubts that any one faith has the truth, Professor Colin Blakemore thinks science makes religion redundant, and Professor Lisa Jardine questions why God allows evil and suffering in this world (BBC).
Click the image to download a pdf file…
Click on each picture for questions on each topic… write in light grey so people can think about answers before seeing yours….
Hiyaaa and good luck for tomorrow’s exam. I’m sure you’re all going to do wonderfully. I was just doing a final check through the SQA arrangement documents (click for link) and I’ve included the bits you need to know here. You should find this list of outcomes pretty reassuring as we have covered far more than the minimum necessary.
On Buddhism:
On Ethics:
And on Philosophy of Religion:
And:
In terms of advice, read your booklet (available here), answer the question, stick to your timings and (almost) always give both sides in Analysis and Evaluation type questions…
And as always:
Explain why you think what you think.
Get a good sleep tonight and Good Luck! – I’ll see you outside tomorrow.
Same as all the others… click on it to get a bigger one.
Here’s the hand out from our recent class, do use it to revise for your prelim… click here to get a print view… This is the absolute minimum you would have to know; for brownie points look into Irenaeus, John Hick, Antony Flew, Keith Ward and The Brothers Karamazov….
Click here to download… (p&p research int2 rmps)
Here are the slides for today’s lunchtime revision session…
and for the handout click here (faith & reason revision), happy studying…
Research Task:
Find out about the relevance of your philosopher/physicist to the Cosmological Argument. Do you think they would support or oppose it and why?
There is a Niels Bohr example below.
The Big Bang: What was it? When was it? Why do so many of us believe in it?
You need to answer this as if it was an 8 mark question and be confident that you are going to get full marks. Expect to talk about Hydrogen atoms, gravity, cooling and gases. Obviously you need to give more information than this poster.
For all of you who are trapped in the snow we’ll be pushing on with the cosmological argument… We need to get it done and assessed before Christmas…. any questions just email…jb
Use these images and text to complete a mind-map of everything you have learned. (evil revision task )
This includes the final task at the end..
eden fall handout
Philosophy of Religion Page now has all the revision slides up for your last minute revision… click here
The Whole Medical Ethics Unit
The Cosmological Argument and The Problem of Evil (up to free-will) in the Philosophy of Religion Unit.
The Life and Teachings of the Buddha (including 4 signs, 4 noble truths, life of Siddhartha, his journey, temptation by Mara and Enlightenment, 8fold path, 3 root poisons, 3 marks of existence) in the Buddhism Unit.
Make sure you know it all. The slides that are not up yet will be soon.
Good Luck
