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FIIYY NAAL Flashcards

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Does faith assume that you have no evidence for believing what you believe

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No, because if what you put your faith in is true, there will be evidence

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What is the most important question that a persons worldview answers?

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What is the thing from which everything else comes

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What worldview do most atheists hold on to?

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Materialism

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What worldview is in star wars

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Pantheism

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How can abductive reasoning help us to determine the origin of the universe?

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We didn’t see the beginning of the universe, so we can look at everything now and work backwards from there

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The 19th century saw a dramatic move away from Theism toward undirected evolution. Was this a result of scientific discovery or the personal philosophy of scientists

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A personal philosophy because they didn’t see evolution, they only saw common traits

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What did Hubble discover about the universe

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It was expanding

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What theory arose from bubbles discovery

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Big Bang theory

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How does the Big Bang theory support the biblical claim that “in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”

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They both support that there was a beginning to the universe

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What does the God hypothesis include that the Big Bang theory does not

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A creator

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Redshift, and Hawkins solutions the the field of equations of general relativity which suggest a beginning point to both time and space

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Proves creatio ex nehilio

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There’s not enough mass I. The currently expanding universe to cause a gravitational recollapse; besides, the expansion is accelerating,not slowing

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Proves the oscillating universe theory

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The discovery of background radiation: remnant energy coming from hot, super condensed matter- energy that would not be present if this theory were true

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Disproves the steady state theory

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What is the most compelling evidence for the intelligent design of the universe

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Fine tuning of the laws of physics and chemistry

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How many conditions of the universe must be “just right” in order for human life to exist? What are some of these conditions

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35, gravity and the expanding of the universe

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Why is the problem with the weak anthropoid principal?

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It doesn’t explain why necessary conditions of life are so finely tuned

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What is the problem with the many worlds hypothesis

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Who or what is generating these universes. There is no evidence for the other universes

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What does intelligent design say

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Things look designed because they are

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What does Darwinism say

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Things look designed, but they are NOT

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What are the two parts of evolutionary theory?

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Chemical evolution and biological evolution

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In Darwins day, what did scientists think about the simple makeup of a cell?

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They thought it was a simple globule of plasm

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What is the function of DNA within the cell

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Information in DNA directs the making of protein in the cell

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What is the only example of specified, functional information

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Intelligence

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What are the odds that a single functional protein could come together by random chance?

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1 in 10(to the 164 power)

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How many proteins does it take to make up the simplest single-cell organism?

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250-400

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Why are serious scientists not thinking that life began by chance?

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Chance is not a good hypothesis, the odds are too great

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What is the problem with the prebiotic natural selection hypothesis

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It’s not alive yet

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What is the problem with the self organization hypothesis

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Natural forces of attraction do not explain the info produced

29
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If something looks designed what do we naturally conclude

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It was designed

30
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Materialists used to believe that life was made of matter and energy alone. What 20th century discovery has made scientists unable to explain the origin of life?

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Information in the cell

31
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Why is the intelligent design hypothesis not an option for many scientists

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Because it concludes that there is a greater being

32
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What should be the most important rule of science?

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We should evaluate both sides, follow the evidence where it leads

33
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What evidence do we have in the fossil record that disproves Darwins idea of a gradual morphing of life forms over time

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There was a sudden appearance of major life forms, not a slow gradual build up to what we have today

34
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What are the 3 key conditions for an objective morality?

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  • objective standard
  • human free will
  • intrinsic value of humans
35
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Describe “ theistic virtue ethics”

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We are designed to reflect Gods character; he designed us to where we function best

36
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What does the materialist believe about morality- what is right and wrong

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There is no right and wrong

37
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What do materialists think of human free will. And what are we determined by?

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There is no free will, we are determined by genes, environment, and evolutionary history

38
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To the materialist,what is just as valuable as human life

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There is no qualities differences between animals, humans, or any other life form

39
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Describe the philosophy of Moral relativism

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There are no objective ethical norms/ no standard/ can’t call me wrong

40
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What is the problem with relativism

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It implies that there are no ethical disagreements, no ethical errors, and progress in ethics is impossible

41
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What are some things that you cannot do if you are a “moral relativist”?

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  • can’t accuse others of wrongdoing
  • can’t complain about being mistreated
  • can’t blame others or accept moral praise
  • can’t make changes of unfairness or injustice
42
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Explain how the actions of all people reveal that they truly do believe in objective moral standards

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They don’t want any rules, but they want other people to follow them/ double standards

43
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What is the problem with evolutionary ethics(3things)

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  • it destroys any reason to obey moral norms
  • can’t establish which instincts to indulge and which to suppress
  • can’t account for altruism/ doing something selfless
44
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What is evolutionary ethics

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Moral rules developed from “moral sentiments” or “moral emotions”

45
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What is the only logical explanation for the existence of an objective moral code

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GOD

46
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What are the three tests used to determine the reliability of a historical document?

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Internal evidence test
Bibliographical test
External test

47
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What question does internal evidence answer

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Is the original written record accurate and true

48
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What question does external evidence answer

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Is the content of the document supported by other sources

49
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What question does bibliographical test answer

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Is the text we now have the same as what was originally written

50
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What 20th century discovery proved that the Old Testament had been accurately copied over the last 2000

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Dead Sea scrolls

51
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A complete manuscript of the book of Isaiah was among the documents discovered. When was it determined to have been written?

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125 B.C.

52
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What do the writers of the OT scriptures claim about the source of their writing?

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Idk

53
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If the 1st question is “where did it all come from” then what is question 2

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Is the bible reliable, who is God

54
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How and why do materialists view the bible

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The bible must be man made

55
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Explain Wellhausen’s theory of the evolutionary origin of religion

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He thought that religion evolved from pantheism to polytheism to monotheism

56
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Summarize Wellhausen’s documentary hypothesis and his reasons for it

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He claimed that the Torah was written by multiple authors, over 100s of years and more than a thousand years after the events actually happened

57
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What are some of the precise details given in the biblical text which situate it in the middle Bronze Age, the time of the events it describes

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  • covenants
  • law codes
  • personal names
  • place names
58
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What and where is tel el-Dab’a

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It is an archaeological dig in ancient Goshen

59
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Describe 2 archaeological discoveries that provide evidence for the presence of Israel in Egypt

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Israelite houses, Brooklyn papyrus

60
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Amarna letters

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  • referring to raids and conquest

- Hebrew term “Habiru” is used

61
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Merenptah stele

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  • records an attack in Canaan by Pharoh

- mentions Israel as part of Canaan and refers to it as a Dominant Nation

62
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Describe 2 archaeological discoveries that provide evidence for the presence of Israel in Canaan

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Amarna letters, Merenptah stele

63
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Israelite houses

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4 rooms

Pillared house plant

64
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Brooklyn papyrus

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77 slaves names found

Names were Hebrew

65
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Describe the archaeological evidence we have for the Israelites 40 years of wilderness wandering

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Egyptian temple inscription-an archaeological inscription saying “land of the nomads of Yaweh”

66
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According to the bible, why did God command his people, the Israelites, to wipe out the people of Canaan

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Because of their idolotry/ child sacrifice

67
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What archaeological evidence has been found which supports the Biblical account of the destruction of Jericho?

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  • grain stores weren’t plundered
  • destroyed by fire/destruction layer
  • walls of Jericho impressively fortified
  • walls fell outward
68
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What two archaeological discoveries situate Jericho’s fall around the biblical date of 1400 BC

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  • Cypriot pottery

- Egyptian scarab beetles

69
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How is a worldview a type of faith

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Faith is belief in a system of thought, a personal philosophy, which is a worldview

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