http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/ en tutor2u.net Copyright 2009 2009-10-07T20:52:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/hip-hop-creation/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/hip-hop-creation/#When:20:52:00Z A hip hop musical introduction to creation and evolution- it describes the main events of the creation and then sets out the theory of evolution and the notion of the Big Bang. Well - at least it’s different! Click here for the link.. RS Blog, AS Philosophy of Religion 2009-10-07T20:52:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/darwins-influence-on-literature/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/darwins-influence-on-literature/#When:21:11:00Z The Newsnight panel discuss Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’. This contains an interesting debate between Rev Richard Coles, Margaret Atwood, Ruth Padel and Richard Dawkins about why people still resist the theory of evolution. Is it human behavior, is it the threat to religious authority or scriptural authority, is it due to an emotional barrier? Click here for the link RS Blog, AS Philosophy of Religion 2009-09-30T21:11:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/how-to-read-your-text-book/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/how-to-read-your-text-book/#When:08:54:00Z Are you struggling to make sense your text book? Watch this! click here for the link 2009-09-28T08:54:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/philosophers-football-match1/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/philosophers-football-match1/#When:08:30:01Z If you haven’t come across this before it’s a pretty funny introduction to the major philosophers of our time. click here for the link to the Monty Python Sketch 2009-09-21T08:30:01-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/darwin-vs-dawkins-is-a-phenomenon-of-our-times/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/darwin-vs-dawkins-is-a-phenomenon-of-our-times/#When:20:40:00Z Darwin shook the status quo but never went as far as publicly denying God. According to James Secord, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, “It is easy to make Darwin out to be like Richard Dawkins, and to see Darwin as an acid that eats through our belief and faith, but Darwin didn’t see it like that”.  RS Blog, AS Philosophy of Religion 2009-09-20T20:40:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/darwin-creation/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/darwin-creation/#When:20:23:00Z Just incase you hadn’t noticed Creation opens next Friday. Its billed as being about the man Darwin, his life and his legacy. It’s got to be worth a look! click here for a review 2009-09-20T20:23:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/teaching-the-rwandan-genocide/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/teaching-the-rwandan-genocide/#When:08:56:00Z The charity Survivors Fund (SURF) is undertaking a preliminary survey amongst UK teachers to develop a greater understanding of if and how the Rwandan genocide is taught in schools. Your input into this research will be greatly appreciated, if you can spare the time to answer the following brief ten questions via the link here. Thank you. 2009-09-16T08:56:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/happy-campers/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/happy-campers/#When:19:15:00Z The Times reports that Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, is helping to launch the first atheist summer camps. They will rival the summer holiday schemes usually run by church groups, scouts or guides. “Budding atheists will be given lessons to arm themselves in the ways of rational scepticism”. RS Blog 2009-06-29T19:15:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/what-would-jesus-buy/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/what-would-jesus-buy/#When:17:58:00Z Reverend Billy Talen, a preacher from America, is launching his UK tour “The Shopocalypse” with his gospel choir called the Church of Life After Shopping.  2009-05-18T17:58:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/plato-cave-revision-as/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/plato-cave-revision-as/#When:17:58:00Z Candidates should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of what might be represented in the Analogy of the Cave by the following: 1) the prisoners, the shadows, the cave itself, the outside world, the sun, the journey out of the cave and the return to the prisoners. RS Blog, A2 Philosophy of Religion 2009-05-15T17:58:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/3-links-for-revision-on-religious-language/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/3-links-for-revision-on-religious-language/#When:17:49:00Z Religious Language click here for a useful ink outlining the major issues and problems arising within this topic. click here for a briefer discussion of the issue. Very accessible. Mentions the key players in the debate. click here for a far deeper discussion of the issues. Has useful chapters with links so that you can focus upon certain areas. RS Blog, A2 Philosophy of Religion 2009-05-15T17:49:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/angels-and-demons/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/angels-and-demons/#When:19:32:00Z The theme of the film is the conflict between religion and science. It has met with mixed reviews. Whilst it is not as sacrilegious as The Da Vinci Code, there is still plenty to offend ones religious sensibilities. However, interestingly the Vatican describes the film as ‘harmless’. click here to read the Times review 2009-05-14T19:32:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/origins-of-the-universe-revision/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/origins-of-the-universe-revision/#When:21:40:00Z check this website out for a brief overview and loads of links click here for the link RS Blog, AS Philosophy of Religion 2009-05-12T21:40:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/the-problem-of-evil-revision/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/the-problem-of-evil-revision/#When:21:38:00Z Check out this web site for useful links and synopsis of the topic. click here for the link RS Blog, AS Philosophy of Religion 2009-05-12T21:38:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/the-evolution-of-god/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/the-evolution-of-god/#When:21:11:00Z Robert Wright’s book The Evolution of God is out next month in America. It is a non believers exploration of how religious doctrine and practice have changed and evolved through human history. The book expounds the view that our evolving view of God can be understood as the evolution of the human understanding of truth, that the evolving doctrines and practice of our faith might merely indicate humankind’s slow understanding of the real nature of the divine.  RS Blog 2009-05-12T21:11:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/who-thinks-religion-is-important/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/who-thinks-religion-is-important/#When:17:34:00Z Asians and Africans see religion as most important in their daily lives. Europeans are less of the belief that faith matters. 99% of people in Bangladesh agree that religion is part of their daily lives, whilst only 29% of those in Britain are of the same view. click here for the link to the complete list of statistics from the recent Gallup poll.  RS Blog 2009-05-07T17:34:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/can-god-make-you-rich-and-happy/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/can-god-make-you-rich-and-happy/#When:17:43:00Z According to a recent article in the Times there are economic benefits to being a Christian. There arppears to be a link between religiosity and upward economic mobility in the United States. Jonathan Gruber, a secular economist from MIT has argued that church going produces a boost in income.  RS Blog 2009-05-04T17:43:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/god-is-back/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/god-is-back/#When:17:49:01Z Weber and Durkheim predicted the secularization of the world. Freud saw religion as neurosis. Neitzche stated confidently that “God is dead”. In fact, ever since Darwin, educated western though has considered religion to be a dying phenomena - “ the refuge of the ignorant, the superstitious”. In 1959 C. Wright Mills argued that “in due course the sacred realm shall disappear altogether, except possibly, in the private realm”. So why is religion making a come back? Did it ever really go away?  RS Blog 2009-05-03T17:49:01-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/religion-is-the-new-social-evil/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/religion-is-the-new-social-evil/#When:19:45:00Z The Times reported this week that a poll conducted by a Christian charity has identified religion as the new social evil of the 21st century.  2009-04-28T19:45:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/what-do-you-get-if-you-divide-science-by-god/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/what-do-you-get-if-you-divide-science-by-god/#When:18:55:00Z A prize winning quantum physicist says a spiritual reality is veiled from us and science offers a glimpse behind that curtain. The bizarre nature of quantum physics has attracted some speculation that that it is compatible with a ‘spiritual view of things’.  2009-04-10T18:55:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/the-problem-of-suffering/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/the-problem-of-suffering/#When:18:25:00Z Dr Alan Billings comments on the sheer precariousness of human life. He argues that to put your trust in God is to abandon all hope that life will go well simply because you are a person of faith. Drawing upon the experiences of those in Italy Dr Billings links the problem of suffering with the experience of Christ on the cross.  RS Blog, A2 Ethics, A2 Philosophy of Religion, AS Philosophy of Religion 2009-04-10T18:25:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/faith-and-the-credit-crunch/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/faith-and-the-credit-crunch/#When:08:30:00Z Can religion really comment on economics? Does Christianity have anything relevant to say about the credit crunch?  2009-03-30T08:30:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/creationism-to-be-taught-in-science-lessons-in-uk/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/creationism-to-be-taught-in-science-lessons-in-uk/#When:08:39:00Z OCR is bringing in a study of Creationism into the GCSE biology from September. The spokeswoman for OCR said “candidates need to understand the social and historical context to scientific ideas both pre and post Darwin. Candidates are asked to discuss why the opponents of Darwinism thought the way they did and how scientific controversies can arise from different ways of interpreting empirical evidence” click here for the link to the full article in the Times 2009-03-20T08:39:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/more-on-darwin/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/more-on-darwin/#When:21:05:00Z This is an interesting look at some of the experiments Darwin created when investigating his theory of evolution. click here for the iplayer link RS Blog, AS Philosophy of Religion 2009-03-06T21:05:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/darwin-and-religion1/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/darwin-and-religion1/#When:20:59:00Z Darwins Dangerous Ideas. Thurs 9pm. BBC2 Andrew Marr I can’t recommend watching this enough. This is an excellent account of the origins of the science vs religion debate. Click here for the iplayer link RS Blog, A2 Ethics, A2 Philosophy of Religion, AS Ethics, AS Philosophy of Religion 2009-03-06T20:59:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/russells-celestial-teapot/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/russells-celestial-teapot/#When:18:05:01Z Russells Celestial teapot analogy was designed to refute the argument that the burden of proof lies with the non-believer to disprove the claims of religions. It has been used more recently by Richard Dawkins in his book “A Devils Chaplain”. Dawkins has also reformulated the argument to be an Invisible Pink Unicorn in The God Delusion (2006). For an interesting discussion of the flaws in Russells Celestial Teapot argument click here. RS Blog, A2 Philosophy of Religion, AS Philosophy of Religion 2009-02-24T18:05:01-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/darwin-and-religion/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/darwin-and-religion/#When:21:12:00Z This BBC Thought for the Day is a useful introduction to the issues. Rev David Wilkinson 12th Feb Click here for the link RS Blog, AS Philosophy of Religion 2009-02-19T21:12:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/do-you-know-your-biblical-references/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/do-you-know-your-biblical-references/#When:20:01:00Z Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has raised concerns that many students are coming unstuck because they do not understand their bible references. Test your knowledge with this quiz from the Bible Society. Click here RS Blog, A2 Ethics, A2 Philosophy of Religion, AS Ethics, AS Philosophy of Religion 2009-02-18T20:01:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/moral-monkeys-and-kant/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/moral-monkeys-and-kant/#When:18:56:00Z In todays ‘Thought for the Day” Akhandadhi Das spoke about research presented last week to show that Monkeys express empathy and offer help when a fellow animal is in trouble. These findings seem to suggest that animals have a moral sense, thus calling into question the idea that humans are unique. Does this have implications for the Moral Argument as a proof for the existence of God?  RS Blog, AS Ethics, AS Philosophy of Religion, IB TOK, Emotion 2009-02-18T18:56:00-06:00 http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/philosophers-football-match/ http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/philosophers-football-match/#When:19:22:01Z Strange but true - A board game simulating a football match between French and German Philosophers. If you fancy a go then click here for the link. It contains all of the rules and everything you’ll need to play! RS Blog, A2 Ethics, A2 Philosophy of Religion, AS Ethics, AS Philosophy of Religion, IB TOK, Revision Notes, Philosophy of Religion 2009-02-17T19:22:01-06:00