Reasonable? Flashcards
1
Q
Prima Facie
A
- Belief in God is truly basic
- 90% of the world’s population holds to a doctrine of some form of God.
- Alvin Plantinga: “There is not sufficient evidence that God does not exist.”
2
Q
Presuppositional
A
Defends and attacks a system’s coherence, correspondence, & pragmatism.
- contradictory elements
- if does not reflect what we see in the field of life
3
Q
Cosmological Argument
A
natural world needs a Creator
-Philosophical: An infinite cannot exist within time & space.
(count backwards from infinity)
Scientific: The cosmos did begin a finite time ago. (General Relativity, 2nd Thermodynamic Law.)
4
Q
Teleological Argument
A
The cosmos has overwhelming signs of design
