Test 1 Flashcards
Faith assumes that you have no evidence for believing what you do
Is this statement true or false. Why?
False because if what you put your faith into is real, you will have evidence
What question will a persons worldview answer?
Does God exist?
Which worldview do atheists hold onto
Materialism
According to materialism, where does all matter in the universe come from
A single cell
Which worldview did Galileo, Newton, and Kepler believe
Deism
Which worldview is in star wars
Pantheism
How can abductive reasoning help us to determine the origin of the universe
It can help us because we didn’t see the beginning of the universe, so we reason from the effect back to the cause
Was the result of the evolution theory because of scientific discoveries of personal philosophy
Personal philosophy, because they didn’t want the need for a cause beyond the universe
What did Edwin Hubble discover about the universe?
He discovered that it was expanding.
What theory arose from the expanding discovery
The Big Bang theory
How does the Big Bang theory support genesis 1:1
It supports that there was a beginning of the universe
What does the God hypothesis include that the bb theory does not
A creator
There’s not enough mass in the currently expanding universe to cause a gravitational recollappse; besides, the expansion is accelerating not slowing
The oscillating universe theory
Redshift and Hawkins solutions to the “field equations of general relativity” which suggest a beginning point to both time and space
Creatio ex nihlio
The discovery of background radiation: remnant energy coming from hot, super condensed matter- energy would not be present if this theory epwere ture
Steady state theory
