Quiz#2 Flashcards
Epistemic
Reasons for thinking a claim is true or false
What is Pascal’s Wager?
We cannot know God through reason but we can have a pragmatic reason for believing.
Pragmatic
Reasons for thinking there is some practical benefit for believing.
What are the assumptions of pascal wager
It is advantageous to believe in God
What is James argument for pragmatic faith
We can be justified in making a leap of faith when there is no evidence and the choice is a genuine option.
What is evidentialism and how does it relate to the question of gods existence ?
Evidentialism is believing only if there’s sufficient evidence. Weak atheism, we shouldn’t believe in God because there is not sufficient evidence.
When according to James. Is it justified to make a leap of faith?
We can be justified to make a leap of faith when there is no evidence and the choice is a genuine option
Genuine option
Live - believe both alternatives are possible
Forced - believe or not believe
Momentous- the decision matters
Moral evil
Human actions
Natural evil
Nature
Free will defense
Gods intervention would take away our free will
Soul-making defense
Evil is necessary in order to cultivate human virtues and morally
Good requires evil
To understand good we must understand evil
Mysterious defense
We just don’t know why God allows evil
Best of all possible worlds
A perfect God could have only created the best possible world
Ad hoc hypothesis
Claim to defend original claim
Cosmological argument
If the universe exist God must exist
Classical cosmological argument premises and conclusion
Everything that exists must be cause by something else
There cannot be an infinite series of causes
C) there exists an uncaused, first cause
C) the uncaused, first cause is God
Invalid
Kalam
Whatever begins to exist has a cause
The universe began to exist
The universe has a cause
Design argument
Human artifacts like the world are intricate and purposeful
Human artifacts have intelligent designer
Therefore the world must have intelligent designer
What type of argument is the design argument?
Arguments by analogy
Objections to design argument by Hume
Humes points there are too many differences and little in common between the two being compared.and that the designer does not have to be God
