â¢Discuss the ways in which developments in scientific knowledge may conflict with the ideas about the origins of life developed by different cultures:Different cultures and religious in the world have their own ideas about life, it maybe quite different to the scientific evidenceIn biblical creationism different organisms were made for specialised environments at the same time, the organisms that were created have not changed nor are they related.
ÃÂScience: Evolution; all organisms are constantly changing, not created, but evolved.
ÃÂChristians: They believe in Biblical creationism; all organisms created as they are by God, no change over timeÃÂChinese: Believe the first organism was P'an Ku, who evolved in a giant cosmic egg. All elements of the universe were in the egg, all mixed. In the egg, he separated the opposites, then 18,000 years later the egg hatched, and P'an Ku died from the effort of creation.
ÃÂAboriginals: Dreamtime; great supernatural beings existed in the dreamtime and created the Earth and everything in itÃÂGreek: Aristotle's ideas that the whole universe had a hierarchy and that it started from rocks, up through plants and animals, to humans, and finally to God.
Creationism, Maltese style
Carolus Linnaeus, (J. H. Scheffel, 1739)
Carolus Linnaeus in Laponian costume; replica of a...ÃÂRomans: Lucretius, a Roman philosopher believed there was no God, because the universe was so imperfect. It was made of particles all squeezing together.
ÃÂAs you can see, science contradicts with the belief of many people.
Conflicts with different culturesDifferent cultures and religious in the world have their own ideas about life, it maybe quite different to the scientific evidence.
ìIn biblical creationism different organisms were made for specialised environments at the same time, the organisms that were created have not changed nor are they relatedìAustralian Aborigines believe that ancestral beings created the world a long time ago in a period known as the dream time. The scientific theories in this...