Key Words - Challenges To Religious Beliefs Flashcards
Theodicy
Justification of God in the face of evil or suffering
Privation
A lack of an essential characteristic or property
Eg. Blindness is a lack of sight
Inconsistent triad
God cannot be omnipotent and omnibonevolent or evil would not exist
Epistemic distance
Gods existence is not obvious to humans in order to allow free will
Intelligent design
A scientific theory which suggests some features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligence, not by an undirected process such as natural selection
Natural selection
The process in nature where organisms best adapted to their environment survive and pass of their genetic info to their offspring, while those less adapted are often eliminated
Irreducible complexity
A single system composed of several well matched interacting parts that contribute to the basic function of the system wherein the removal of any one of the parts would cause the system to stop functioning
Young earth creationism
The world is 6,000 years old according to Bishop Usher
Old earth creationism
A “day” in genesis 1 is interpreted as a period of time, not 24hrs
Agrees with science that Earth is ancient but that God created it
Omphalos argument
God created the world with an appearance of age
NOMA
Non-Overlapping magesteria
Theistic evolution
An acceptance of evolution and modern science but seeing God in control of the process
Progressive creationism
God started the Big Bang and created all species
Allows for adaptation within species
