Key Words Test

Question 1

Outline and explain what an ontological argument is.

Answer 1

-Arguments that claim that we can deduce the existence of God from the concept of God

Question 2

Outline and explain what a Kalam argument is.

Answer 2

-A form of cosmological argument that claims that everything that begins to exist has a cause, and the universe began to exist because it is impossible for a temporal sequence of things to be infinite, so the universe has a cause

Question 3

Outline and explain what a cosmological argument is.

Answer 3

-Arguments

Question 4

What is a design argument?

Answer 4

-Arguments for God’s existence that claim that there is complexity in the world that is evidence of design, and design requires a designer, which is God.

Question 5

What is a tautology?

Answer 5

-A statement that repeats the subject in the predicate, that says the same thing twice.

Question 6

What is the euthyphro dilemma?

Answer 6

-What is the relationship between God and reality? Is morality something independent of God or is it whatever God wills it to be?

Question 7

What is an analytic proposition?

Answer 7

-A proposition that is true or false in virtue of the meanings of the words. E.g. a bachelor is an unmarried man

Question 8

What is a synthetic proposition?

Answer 8

-A proposition that is true or false depending on the way the world is. E.g. Paris is the capital of France

Question 9

What is the difference between eternal and everlasting.

Answer 9

• Eternal- Timeless (atemporal). What is eternal can’t have the concepts beginning or end even applied to it. Exists outside of time.
• Everlasting- Existing throughout all of time, without beginning or end

Question 10

What is a Blik?

Answer 10

-An attitude to or view of the world that is not had or withdrawn on the basis of empirical evidence.