The document discusses whether religion or science provides better guidance for determining what is right and wrong, using the example of animal cruelty. The author explores views from both perspectives on issues like animal testing, farming practices, and using animals for human gain. While science uses reasoning and evidence from animal experiments, religion generally promotes tolerance for animals. Both religion and science have roles to play, as some level of suffering may be necessary for progress, but not all predicted outcomes are unavoidable. Overall, the document examines how religion and science approach the complex issue of animal cruelty.

1. IS RELIGION OR SCIENCE
MOST USEFUL IN HELPING
US JUDGE WHAT IS RIGHT
AND WRONG?
By Seb Holland

2. WHAT I HOPE TO EXPLORE
 A real life issue that I will be looking at is suffering
 I hope to explore whether science or religion offers
the best idea for answering these problems in the
world
 Animal suffering is a key example of this and
happens every day
 Is suffering right for our own gains as a society?

3. WHAT DO WE MEAN BY SUFFERING FOR
PERSONAL GAIN?
 Putting others at risk.
 Looking out for ourselves and sometimes others.
 Improving the future.
 Killing?
 Destruction?
 Can this really be good?

4. ANIMAL CRUELTY
 Is testing products on animals before humans right?
 Why should animals suffer for us?
 Are we not animals in our own rights?
 Is Farming right?

5. ANIMAL CRUELTY
 It is an ethical issue that has stayed with us over
the years
 Does science or religion help us define what is right
and wrong with animal cruelty?
 In 1988 there were 3,480,300 animals in use in the
Uk for testing and what have you.
 So Animal cruelty is a controversial ethical
dilemma, which best helps us to decide if it is
acceptable-science or religion.

6. DO YOU AGREE?
 Albert Einstein- “ Science without religion is lame. Religion
without science is blind.”
 Charles Darwin- “In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out
at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in
adapting themselves best to their environment.”
 Martin Luther King Jr- ”A man who wont die for something is
not fit to live.”
 John Paul II- “ Science can purify Religion from error and
superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and
false absolutes.”
 Chaos Theory

7. RELIGION Vs Evolution
 Is there a God?
 For Evolution to happen, something has to die off?
 Everything dies.

8. HOW DOES SCIENCE JUDGE ANIMAL
CRUELTY?
 Scientists have used animals throughout history to
come to conclusions from Heisenberg's uncertainty
theory to Galen’s ideas on the human body.
 We often hear about the ill treatment of animals by
scientists, but there is always two sides to the story.
A lot of Animals benefit from treatment and for a
small sacrifice many will benefit.
 Scientists give evidence and reasoning to animal
cruelty, and continue to use it, for now until there is
an alternative.

9. HOW DOES RELIGION JUDGE ANIMAL
CRUELTY?
 Religion tackles animal cruelty in a different manner
and has most of its reasoning under faith which
comes under “emotion” for a way of knowing.
 Also perceptions of what is right and what is wrong.
Some religions/cults sacrifice animals, but most
show a tolerance to them and do not hurt them.

10. IS THE FUTURE SET IN STONE?
• Can we predict the future?
•Is everything eventual?
•Can we shape the future?

11. HOW DOES THE FUTURE AFFECT ANIMAL
CRUELTY?
 Animals all over the world are affected by natural
hazards, as are we. Some are dying out, whilst
others are being discovered.
 Should we be helping animals by interfering or
letting them take natures course and let them die?
 Will it make a difference to the world with less
animals?

12. CONCLUSION
 Religion & Science are tied together whether they
like it or not, but both know that suffering must
occur sometimes for the best interest of everybody.
 Animal Cruelty is something that no-one likes but if
we don’t uphold experiments then we will die, or the
animals will.
 The Future is inevitable and sometimes
untouchable but just because something is
supposed to happen doesn't mean we have to let it
happen.

13. THE END?