God

Question 1

And a long time ago, there was a man who argued that God’s existence is provable: 11th century French monk BLANK.

Answer 1

Anselm of Canterbury

Question 2

The study of being is called BLANK

Answer 2

ontology

Question 3

A BLANK is a flaw in reasoning, something that weakens or destroys an argument.

Answer 3

fallacy

Question 4

“BLANK” is often used incorrectly when the speaker or writer really means “raising the question.” For example Jane is an intelligent, insightful, well-educated and personable individual, which begs the question: why does she stay at that dead-end job?

Answer 4

Begging the question

Question 5

Kant offered the point that, as he put it, “BLANK.”

Answer 5

existence is not a predicate.

Question 6

A BLANK is just something that’s said of another object.

Answer 6

predicate

Question 7

For example, if a triangle exists, it necessarily has 3 sides. But it could be that no triangle exists at all. Because the idea of existence isn’t part of how we define a triangle.

Answer 7

BLANK

Question 8

Aquinas 5 arguments about the existence of God

Answer 8

ARGUMENT FROM MOTION
ARGUMENT FROM CAUSATION 
ARGUMENT FROM CONTINGENCY
ARGUMENT FROM DEGREES
TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT

Question 9

BLANK. In it, Aquinas observed that we currently live in a world in which things are moving. And he also observed that movement is caused by movers – things that cause motion.

Answer 9

ARGUMENT FROM MOTION

Question 10

BLANK- in a chain of reasoning, the evidence for each point along the chain relies on the existence of something that came before it, which in turn relies on something even further back, and so on, with no starting point.

Answer 10

Infinite Regress

Question 11

There must have been a time when nothing was in motion, Aquinas thought, and there also must’ve been a static being that started the motion. And that being, according to Aquinas, is God – the BLANK.

Answer 11

Unmoved Mover

Question 12

BLANK The argument went along these lines: Some things are caused Anything that’s caused has to be caused by something else (since nothing causes itself)
There can’t be an infinite regress of causes
So there must have been a first causer, itself uncaused, and that is God. Just like with the Argument from Motion, the point here is pretty simple: Effects have causes.

Answer 12

ARGUMENT FROM CAUSATION

Question 13

BLANK – a being that has always existed, that always will exist, and that can’t not exist,

Answer 13

Necessary being

Question 14

BLANK - any being that could have not existed.

Answer 14

Contingent being

Question 15

BLANK - contingent things can cause other contingent things but there cant only be contingent things. Because that would mean that there is an infinite regress of contingency and a possibility that nothing might have existed.

Answer 15

ARGUMENT FROM CONTINGENCY

Question 16

BLANK - Properties come from degrees. In order for there to be degrees of perfection, there must be something perfect against which everything else is measured.

Answer 16

ARGUMENT FROM DEGREES

Question 17

It’s known as the teleological argument. You may know it as BLANK. To make his case for the existence of God, William Paley gave us what’s known as an argument by analogy. This form of inductive argument invites us to consider a particular state of affairs

Answer 17

Intelligent Design

Question 18

God cannot sin is known as BLANK

Answer 18

Divine Impeccability

Question 19

God’s Omnipotent and Omnibenelovent- One possible response is to say that BLANK

Answer 19

knowledge and causation aren’t the same things.

Question 20

BLANK – a set of beliefs that can’t all be true at the same time.

Answer 20

Contradiction

Question 21

A BLANK is an attempt to show that the existence of evil doesn’t rule out the possibility of God’s existence.

Answer 21

theodicy

Question 22

The problem is, the free will defense really only really addresses what’s known as a BLANK

Answer 22

moral evil

Question 23

BLANK - Evil we are not responsible for. Natural disasters and etc.

Answer 23

Natural Evil

Question 24

BLANK - of, based on, or serving as a hypothesis.

Answer 24

Hypothetical

Question 25

20th-century English philosopher of religion BLANK offered what’s known as the soul-making theodicy. Unlike the traditional view that God created a perfect world, which we ruined through our own poor choices, Hick argued that God deliberately creates us “unfinished,” and our earthly lives are designed to toughen us up, in a sense, kinda like boot camp.

Answer 25

John Hick