Summer Exams - Part 1( Is It Rational To Believe In God) Flashcards
Rational
Makes sense
Theist
A person who believes in god
Atheist
A person who does not believe in a god or gods
Rational 2
A belief that is logical and reasonable based on good evidence
Monotheism
Belief in one god
Polytheism
The belief that there is more than one god/ there are many gods
Miracle
An unexplained or impossible event that people believe is caused by god
Natural evil
Evil and suffering is not directly caused by humans but happens naturally
(Someone died of a volcanic eruptions)
Moral evil
Evil and suffering that is caused by humans
robbed or murdered
The inconsistent triad
Three points that cannot coexist ( god does not want people to suffer, god can stop our suffering , evil and suffering exist)
Omnibelovent
All loving/ all caring
Omnipotent
All powerful
What was William paisleys theory comparing a watch to the earth?
A watch is very complex and cannot simply occur it needs a skilled person to craft it in this case the world must have been created by God
What did William Paley refer to as a watch
The universe
What was the cosmological argument ?
Everything that exists was made by something else so there must be a first cause : god created our universe
Who made the cosmological argument?
Thomas Aquinus
What was Richard Swinburnes theory for the belief in god
There are so many miricles in the world not all of them could be faked an example is a soldier was shot 5 times in the back and was paralysed for 30 years untill one day all the bullets dissapeared with no trace of them ever being there
Signings Freuds theory for there being no God
It could be a sense of recovery or stability for instance if a loved one dies then you want to believe that they are living a second life and also people desire immortality
John makies theory
The inconsistent triad , god and evil can’t coexist
Segmund freuds theory
Some people think god exists because they want it to be real as some sort of comfort
