Alex Mullan - Y11 - Religious Studies Coursework - Religion and Science

(A) Describe the teachings of Christianity about the relationship between humanity and the rest of creation.

In order to discuss what Christianity teaches about the relationship between humanity and the rest of creation, it is necessary to examine the state of creation in both Britain and the World in its entirety.

In Britain alone, the average household throws away about a tonne of rubbish a year, including around 132kg of food. Nearly a third of this garbage is from packaging and the rest from bottles, cans and plastic containers. Outside of the home things aren’t much better; streets are littered with polystyrene French-fry containers, parks with dog faeces, and the once beautiful British countryside beset with plastic fertilizer sacks and abandoned cars. But this behaviour does not only impinge on the British. As proof that Britain’s actions affect other parts of the world, it is proven that sulphur oxides produced in Britain’s power stations fall as acid rain on the forests of Germany and kill the trees, and in Sweden acid rain poisons the lakes, thousands of which now have no fish as a result of this. British law allows this to happen.

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Pollution, however, is about more than individual behaviour. Worldwide, there are many more serious issues transpiring. The world’s resources - which the human race has come to depend on for essentials like water, food, air and energy – are limited. Some are in danger of running out, while others have been so badly damaged by the world’s industrial society that their very existence is threatened. A shocking example must be that the great rainforests of the world are disappearing at a rate of about 100 acres a minute, meaning that if this was permitted to continue over the next ...

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