PEOPLE Flashcards
Who stated there was a lack of evidence of the estimated 50,000 changes required to transform from a sea creature to a land creature?
Berlinski
Who stated that “once you get rid of objective truth, one is able to live howerver they want”?
Zacharias
Who said “the Darwinian myth will be ranked as the greatest deceit in the history of science”?
Lovtrop
Who quoted Darwin himself in the book “Darwins Black Box” to question the validity of man?
Behe
Who has a theory that cells began on Earth by being placed here by aliens?
Crick
Who used the thoery of instruments and immediate changes in species in order to state that the problem of the fossil record actually supports evolution?
Gould
Who used the theory of the watchmaker to provide an argument that the world was created by intelligent design?
Paley
Who used the theory of the blind watchmaker to provide an argument that the world has evolved without a clear purpose or plan of design?
Dawkins
Who said that “evolution is a fact amply demonstrated by the fossil record and contemporary molecular biology?”
Sagan
Who said that Naturalism is all that is left for humans as they pursue pleasure without consequence?
Nietzsche
Who said that “God is dead”?
Nietzsche
Who said that “humans either have a drive for power or pleasure”?
Nietzsche
Who said that “if it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications” then the theory of evolution would break down?
Darwin
Which philosopher believed that you could understand the world through the study of the particulars?
Aristotle
Which philosopher believed that you could understand the world through the study of the universals?
Plato
One of the individuals who signed the Humanist Manifesto and was a philosopher and influential individual in the development of government schools in US.
Dewey
The person who observed that there was a connection between virtue and liberty in early America
Alexis de Tocqueville
The person who said “only a virtuous nation can be free.”
Benjamin Franklin
The person who said “without virture there can be no liberty.”
Benjamin Rush
The US Supreme Court Justice who promoted the legal viewpoint of Sociological Jurisprudence.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The person who taught Legal Positivism as the dean of Harvard Law School.
Christopher Langdell
Declared that “100 years after my death, the Bible will only be found in museums.”
Voltaire
In seeking an understanding about eternal life, this person was seeking factual evidence.
Nicodemus
In seeking an understanding about eternal life, this perosn was seeking satisfaction in life.
Samaritan Woman
In seeking for understanding about eternal life, who were looking for miraculous signs?
The Disciples
In seeking for understanding about eternal life, who were looking for the evidence through works?
The Jewish Leaders
The person who said that “because men are not angels, we need rule of law.”
James Madison
The person who said that “religion and morality are indispensible for human freedom.”
George Washington
The person who said “the greates pillars of government and social life are virtue, morality, and religion.”
Patrick Henry