Summer Exams - Part 1( Is It Rational To Believe In God)

Question 1

Rational

Answer 1

Makes sense

Question 2

Theist

Answer 2

A person who believes in god

Question 3

Atheist

Answer 3

A person who does not believe in a god or gods

Question 4

Rational 2

Answer 4

A belief that is logical and reasonable based on good evidence

Question 5

Monotheism

Answer 5

Belief in one god

Question 6

Polytheism

Answer 6

The belief that there is more than one god/ there are many gods

Question 7

Miracle

Answer 7

An unexplained or impossible event that people believe is caused by god

Question 8

Natural evil

Answer 8

Evil and suffering is not directly caused by humans but happens naturally
(Someone died of a volcanic eruptions)

Question 9

Moral evil

Answer 9

Evil and suffering that is caused by humans

robbed or murdered

Question 10

The inconsistent triad

Answer 10

Three points that cannot coexist ( god does not want people to suffer, god can stop our suffering , evil and suffering exist)

Question 11

Omnibelovent

Answer 11

All loving/ all caring

Question 12

Omnipotent

Answer 12

All powerful

Question 13

What was William paisleys theory comparing a watch to the earth?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What did William Paley refer to as a watch

Answer 14

The universe

Question 15

What was the cosmological argument ?

Answer 15

Everything that exists was made by something else so there must be a first cause : god created our universe

Question 16

Who made the cosmological argument?

Answer 16

Thomas Aquinus

Question 17

What was Richard Swinburnes theory for the belief in god

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Signings Freuds theory for there being no God

Answer 18

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

Question 19

John makies theory

Answer 19

The inconsistent triad , god and evil can’t coexist

Question 20

Segmund freuds theory

Answer 20

Some people think god exists because they want it to be real as some sort of comfort