Space and Geography

– ...in Geography we have a good chat about the Big Bang and space when we introduce our unit of work on Plate Tectonics and volcanoes. I’d love to have a look at Iain’s telescope one day and see the planets a bit more close up and I love the idea of the 2m thingy

-M. Green

Space and the Philosophy of Religion

We’re about to study cosmological arguments for the existence of God in A-level and GCSE Philosophy of Religion.

This includes evaluating cosmic Red Shift and Background Radiation alongside philosophical arguments for a First Cause to discuss whether belief in a supreme being is coherent with the scientific method.

At A level we go more deeply into the philosophical foundations of the scientific method, and touch on the anthropic principle and multiverse theory.

It intrigues many of our students that NASA persists in referring to the Big Bang as a hypothesis (because most of them have been conditioned to regard it as proven fact), and it also stretches their minds to discover that the levels of mass, density and gravity needed to make the model work are almost as irrational as any creation myth!

-J. Bailey