Does God exist

Question 1

Theist

Answer 1

Believes that God(S) exists

Question 2

Agnostic

Answer 2

Not sure that God(s) exists

Question 3

Atheist

Answer 3

Does not believe that God(s) exists

Question 4

Who created the design argument

Answer 4

William Paley

Question 5

Who criticises the design argument

Answer 5

David Hume

Question 6

How did David Hume criticised the design argument

Answer 6

He puts forward a good version of the teleological argument by a character called Cleanthes, and then he criticises via Philo. Even though his his objective is to criticise the design argument, he first puts forward a good version of it

Question 7

Explain the design argument in five sentences

Answer 7

• A watch is intricate and complex with many parts
  -It has a specific pourpous, to tell the time, because of this it must have a designer
  -the human eye and other parts of the human body are far more intricate than a watch
  -therefore, the designer must be much more powerful and intelligent
  -that designer can only be God

Question 8

Challenges to the design aregument

Answer 8

• The teleological argument— William Paley’s version
• Th evolution theory

Question 9

Some of the challenges Hume puts forward

Answer 9

Because there is evil in the world, maybe the creator isn’t the all-loving God of classical theism

Why do we compare the existence of god and the universe to mechanical objects. He argues that this is not right and that we should draw analogies to organic objects not to mechanical ones

Question 10

Who proposed the evolution theory

Answer 10

Charles Darwin

Question 11

What does the evolution theory argue

Answer 11

Charles Darwin proposed that species change over time, that new species come from pre-existing species and that all species share a common ancestor. Species evolve and adapt to survive.

Question 12

Who proposed the cosmological argument

Answer 12

St Thomas Aquinas

Question 13

Explain the cosmological argument in five sentences

Answer 13

• everything which exist must have had a cause
  -the universe exists
  -therefore it must have had a cause and a creator
  -This creator can only be God
  -Therefor god exists

Question 14

Which is the most accepted scientific theory for the existence of the universe?

Answer 14

The Big bang

Question 15

What is the big bang

Answer 15

About 13.7 billion years ago the matter of the universe compressed and produces an explosion, the Big Bang

As the matter flew away, the forces of gravity helped join some of the matter, about 5 billion years ago the solar system was crated.

Question 16

Evidence for the big bang

Answer 16

The redshift effect
-Blue light, things coming
towards the earth
-red light, things going away from the earth

Radio telescopes
Have discovered back ground radiation through the universe which scientists believe is from the Big Bang