Design and causation

Question 1

Reasons why people follow religion

-want to u… why … is as it is
-…, causation …
-religion is c…
-to be apart of religious c….
-brought up by … parents

Answer 1

-want to understand why life is as it is
-design, causation arguments
-religion is comforting
-to be apart of religious communities
-brought up by religious parents

Question 2

Reasons why people reject religion

Answer 2

-no proof of God
-religion causes strife
-god goes against scientific evidence
-inconsistent triad

Question 3

What is the design argument

Answer 3

-the universe is so intricately designed that something had to be the designer
-that designer is God

Question 4

What was William Paleys argument

-The … argument
-watches are …. made and have a …
-this is the same as the …

Answer 4

-The watchmaker argument
-watches are intricately made and have a designer
-this is the same as the universe

Question 5

Christian views on evolution

Answer 5

-god created evolution
-god crested Adam and Eve who reproduced so there is no such thing as evolution

Question 6

Who came up with the idea of evolution

Answer 6

Charles Darwin

Question 7

What is the idea of the survival of the fittest

Where the … that have c… that are b… for s… are more likely to survive and r…, where as the species that … well adapted are more likely to … out

Answer 7

Where the species that have characteristics that are beneficial for survival are more likely to survive and reproduce, where as the species that aren’t well adapted are more likely to die out

Question 8

Buddhists … believe that the universe was created by …

Answer 8

Buddhists don’t believe that the universe was created by God

Question 9

What is the first cause argument

Answer 9

They idea that everything that happens is caused by something else

Question 10

What is the first cause argument also known as

Answer 10

The cosmological argument

Question 11

2 possibilities of how the cause argument works

Answer 11

-it is an eternal chain of cause
-something had to be the first cause, the starting point

Question 12

Buddhist beliefs about the first cause

-do not … that … created the …
-they believe the universe is c… as it has no … or end

Answer 12

-do not believe that god created the universe
-they believe the universe is cyclical as it has no beginning or end

Question 13

Thomas Aquinas came up with theories to prove god is real

1. Nothing can … by …, the first thing that ever … needed … to move it, the … mover is …
2. Nothing can … itself, there can’t be a c… of creation, so there must be a … cause which is …
3. C… beings are beings that are c… to exist, something had to c… those beings, this was …

Answer 13

1. Nothing can move by itself, the first thing that ever moved needed something to move it, the first mover is God
2. Nothing can create itself, there can’t be a chain of creation, so there must be a first cause which is God
3. Contingent beings are beings that are caused to exist, something had to create those beings, this was God

Question 14

Faults with the first cause argument

-… itself, the first … must then have its own …
-no … at all
-if god is … and requires no … then surely other things can like the …

Answer 14

-contradicts itself, the first cause must then have its own cause
-no evidence at all
-if god is eternal and requires no cause then surely other things can like the universe

Question 15

What is used at evidence that God created the world

Answer 15

The creation story in Genesis 1

Question 16

What are the 2 views of the creation story

Answer 16

Liberal- see it as a symbolic message
Fundamentalist- take it literally