Wednesday 4 December 2013

REvision

Start revising now for your assessment here, past paper question with mark scheme available (2012), (2011) and (2010) and 2013

The overview of the topic: Religion and Early Life Within this topic candidates should be familiar with the key teachings from the religion(s) studied and should be aware of how religious leaders and other faith members have interpreted these teachings and applied them to life in society today.
 • the concept of the sanctity of life in relation to its preservation;
• children being seen as a blessing and gift and the miracle of life;
• the issues surrounding when life begins, including at conception, development of backbone, when heart starts beating, at viability, when the baby is born;
• the issues concerning the quality of life, including severe handicaps, unwanted children, poverty and suffering;
• reasons used by religious believers for and against abortion;
• the Law and abortion, including the 1967 and 1990 Acts;
• the rights of those involved, e.g. mother, father and unborn child;
• alternatives to abortion, e.g. keeping the child; adoption and fostering;
• Pro-Life and Pro-Choice arguments and pressure groups.

Wednesday 19 June 2013

Can we make better humans? Moral issues & Ethics

What Science can offers to us? What is the best gene? What are the limits of Genetic modification? What makes someone to be better? After attending a fascinating lecture with Professor John Bryant, who is a Christian Scientist, I share and recommend to you his views on Ethics & Genetics. Please watch those videos here thanks to Faraday Institute for Science and Religion. En-joy it! :-)

"The Chinese Room"

Monday 13 May 2013

REVISION - END OF THE YEAR EXAM

Please revise the following topics:

  • Early Life, check list here
  • Evil and Suffering, check list here
  • War and Peace, check list here. Learning Log (revision notes) here 
! Past paper questions and mark scheme open here (2011) and here (2012)

Monday 11 March 2013

Revise the following points of the Unit War and Peace

Within this topic candidates should be familiar with the key teachings from the religion(s) studied and should be aware of how religious leaders and other faith members have interpreted these teachings and applied them to life in society today.
• the concepts of peace and justice and the sanctity of life in relation to war and peace;
• the causes of war;
• conflict, including examples of recent wars;
• the reasons why religious believers might go to war, including the criteria for ‘Just War’ and ‘Holy War’;
• religious believers and pacifism;
• victims of war, including refugees, those maimed;
• organisations which help victims of war, e.g. The Red Cross, The Red Crescent;
• the work of a religious believer who has worked for peace;
• peacekeeping forces, e.g. United Nations, NATO;
• issues such as terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and nuclear proliferation;
• arguments for and against nuclear weapons, including proliferation;
• religious beliefs and teachings and modern statements about war and peace.

Wednesday 13 February 2013

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Create a fact file about them. Explain what where, why, how and when they were used. Give three examples and explain the consequences of it. PS: The main types of WMD are chemical, biological and nuclear.

Thursday 31 January 2013