Based on obervation-key words Flashcards
Anthropic principle
combining evolution and the design argument (tennent)
Anesthetic principle
humans can do things that has nothing to do with evolution (tennent)
theism
a caring god
deism
a god that doesn’t care
cumulative selection
the explanation for the existence of life’s complex design
a posteriori
knowledge after experience
teleological argument
observed design or telos-motion cause necessity
cosmological argument
using the universe to explain the existence of god
infinite regress
chain of events leading backwards forever
aquinas 3 ways
un moved mover
first cause
necessity and contingency
contingent
depends on something else
necessary
doesn’t depend on anything else
design qua purpose
everything has a purpose designed by god
design qua regularity
laws designed by god
evolution/natural selection
creatures evolving and changing/developing-in survival and re-production of genotypes