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Junior Cycle Religious Education: Creation stories

How often Creation stories comes up on the Religious Education papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 1 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2024.

Creation stories, Common Level(7 marks)

Quick ones on Creation stories.

(a)In the Genesis creation story, sacred to Jews and Christians, God creates the world and then…
  1. Floods it on the eighth day
  2. Rests on the seventh day
  3. Leaves it to the angels
(b)The scientific account of how the universe began is called…
  1. The Genesis account
  2. The theory of evolution
  3. The Big Bang theory
(c)In one Hindu creation story, the god Brahma appears on a lotus flower that grows from…
  1. Vishnu's navel
  2. Mount Kailash
  3. The river Ganges
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(a) Rests on the seventh day

(b) The Big Bang theory

(c) Vishnu's navel

Your turn: Common Level questions on Creation stories.

Common Level

Asked on 1 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2024.

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Not asked
2025Not asked
2024Q1, Q2
2023Not asked
2022Not asked

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Creation stories questions

Creation stories, 3 marks

Why does Buddhism not focus on a story of how the world was created?

  1. Buddhists believe a god made it in six days
  2. The creation story in the Tripitaka was lost
  3. Such questions do not help end suffering
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Such questions do not help end suffering

The Buddha compared such questions to a man hit by a poisoned arrow who refuses help until he knows who shot it. What matters most is ending suffering.

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