For Existance Of God

Question 1

Reasons for the existence of god Swinburne (3)

Answer 1

Miracles performed e.g Brazil 2004 woman jumped off building in suicide attempt and survived
Answered prayers e.g 2004 tsunami 8 year old girl survived and was praying to live
Seeing and hearing e.g 2009 underground caves man who heard god’s voice telling him which way to crawl to get out

Question 2

Reason for existence of god Paley

Answer 2

Design argument

Question 3

Principle of credulity

Answer 3

If something extraordinary happens and we see it, believe it rather than doubting it. (exceptions such as prone to having hallucinations or under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs

Question 4

Principle of testimony

Answer 4

If someone tells you something which happened to them, believe it (exceptions such as the person lies a lot or has something to gain from this)

Question 5

Design argument

Answer 5

Complex things do not appear by chance, they have to be designed - This world is a very complex thing - The World cannot have happened by chance - The world must have been designed by an intelligent being.- This is god

Question 6

Fibonacci evidence for Design Argument

Answer 6

The pattern of seeds in a sunflower follows the Fibonacci sequence (1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144…)
This appears in all plants and only this exact mathematical layout allows plants to grow while reaching sunlight

Question 7

Human Eye evidence for Design Argument

Answer 7

The human eye is an incredibly complex organ and can distinguish between 10 million colours. This is too complex to have happened by chance therefore proving the design argument

Question 8

Reason for the existence of god Aquinas

Answer 8

The cosmological argument

Question 9

The Cosmological Argument

Answer 9

Everything that exists was caused by something else - This chain of cause and effect goes back and back through time - But there must have been a beginning, a First Cause - This First Cause must be eternal and omnipotent - This is God