Philosophy of Religion Quotes

Question 1

Socrates - Design

Answer 1

With such signs of forethought in the design of living creatures, can you ever doubt that they are the work of choice or design?

Question 2

Epicurus - Hypothesis

Answer 2

The universe is eternal and in this unlimited time it was inevitable that a constantly ordered state would develop

Question 3

Kant - Teleological

Answer 3

This proof always deserves to be mentioned with some respect - it is the oldest, the cleanest and the most accordant with common reason of mankind

Question 4

Neil DeGrasse Tyson - Science

Answer 4

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit

Question 5

Hume - Imperfection

Answer 5

The world for all we know is faulty and imperfect

Question 6

Gregory of Nyssa - Genesis

Answer 6

What man of sense could believe that there could have been a day of creation with a morning and an evening before the sun was created

Question 7

Psalm 19

Answer 7

Nature speaks to us without speech - it is not intelligent itself yet it still works towards an intelligent purpose

Question 8

Hume - Evidence

Answer 8

The wise man proportions his belief to evidence

Question 9

Hume - Deity

Answer 9

The first rude essay of some infant deity

Question 10

Randolph Ness - Darwinism

Answer 10

The only way the flaws can be reconciled is through natural selection

Question 11

Stenger - Fine-tuning

Answer 11

Life is fine tuned to the universe, not the universe is fine-tuned to life

Question 12

JP Moreland - Dice

Answer 12

The dice were rigged ahead of time

Question 13

Leibniz - Question

Answer 13

The first and most important question you can ask; why is there something rather than nothing

Question 14

Parmenides - Nothing

Answer 14

Ex Nihilo Nihilo Fit - From nothing, nothing comes

Question 15

Hume - Necessary being

Answer 15

Why may not the material universe be the necessary existent being?

Question 16

Russell - Mothers

Answer 16

Just because everyone has a mother does not mean that the whole human race has a mother

Question 17

Kant - Convincing Cosmology

Answer 17

The most convincing not only for common sense but even for speculative understanding

Question 18

Occum - Razor

Answer 18

Entities should not be multiplied without necessity

Question 19

Magee - Experience

Answer 19

Our experiences firms us in the habit of expecting a cause

Question 20

Aristotle - Goal

Answer 20

There exists a telos or final cause or purpose for all things, nature is teleological as it has goals separate of those of humans