{"id":1998,"date":"2011-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2011\/01\/12\/genesis-vs-the-big-bang-theory\/"},"modified":"2011-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"genesis-vs-the-big-bang-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2011\/01\/12\/genesis-vs-the-big-bang-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis Vs The Big Bang Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Isn\u2019t it enough to see that the garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?\u2019 (Adams, 2009)<\/p>\n<p>Object of study \u2013 Which creation story appears to be more valid in our society. I will compare Genesis and the Big Bang theory. I will critically analyse whether science assumes that Genesis is an explanatory theory, when perhaps it is not. It is very much a scientific discourse.  <\/p>\n<p>I plan to find that The Big Bang theory is a better explanation of creation in today\u2019s society, and whether an atheist can explain creation.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Dawkins \u2013 The God Delusion<br \/>\nKant \u2013 The Critique of Pure Reason<br \/>\nDavid Hume \u2013 Meditations concerning natural religion<br \/>\nThomas Aquinas<br \/>\nThomas Nagel \u2013 The View from Nowhere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April Betts, 2011, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,22,128],"tags":[522,174,292],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-580","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-aquinas","tag-religion","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}