Unit 2 Flashcards
Summarise people who would be for and against First Cause / Cosmological Argument
People who believe in this argument will say that everything has a cause including the universe, and that cause is God.
People who may argue against this may mention that they say ‘everything’ must have a cause, and therefore God must have a cause. This is where the argument contradicts itself, as the argument talks about how God doesn’t have a cause even though He is a part of everything.
What is a Weaknesses of the Cosmological argument.
They contradict themselves saying that everything has a cause, but then they will immediately contradict this and say that God doesn’t have a cause, even though he is a part of everything.
What is one strength of the Cosmological argument.
It says that everything has a cause and that God caused these things. Like the universe was created by the Big Bang, and they argue that God caused the Big Bang.
What is Moral Argument
The Moral Argument argues that God is the reason that we have a moral compass / we know the difference between good and bad.
What would somebody who disagrees or agrees with the Moral Argument say.
People who agree would believe that God is the reason we know the difference between good and bad, and that he guides them and tells there conscious what is good and what is bad.
People who disagree would argue that it is not God who tells us the difference between good and bad but it is actually the influence of others around us, especially our family and parents as they were the people who brought us up and would have taught us how to be moral and know what’s good and bad.
Whats one weakness of the Moral Argument.
That you can argue that the people who are close to you are the ones who build your moral compass as it would be their decision that affect it, which is why some people may not have a good moral compass.
What is one strength of the Moral Argument.
That saying that God is the one who controls are moral compass and is the one telling us what is wrong and right, as are moral compass is something that we can’t see and is something we just feel in our consciousness.
What is the Design Argument.
The Design Argument says that things which are so common in Nature but are so complex that they must have a designer, and that designer is God.
What would somebody who agrees and disagrees with the Design Argument say.
Somebody who agrees would say that it is God who has designed all these incredibly complex structures in Nature which are so common. E.g. A snowflake, sunrise. Such complex things they must have a designer.
Somebody who disagrees would say that although it is really complex and yet so common, they can argue that it is just chance that something like this happens and that there is nobody who has designed it and it was just left up to chance.
What is a weakness of the Design Argument.
A weakness would be the fact that there is nothing to prove that there is a designer for something that is in nature and that it just all happened “naturally”.
What’s a strength to the Design Argument
A strength would be that things which are so common in nature, e.g. snowflakes or a sunrise and sunset, have such complex structures and so much detail in them that it couldn’t be up to chance as it is to complex for that, and so it must have a designer.
Can God exist but there is still evil in the world. Both sides of this argument.
Some people may say that no God can’t exist if there is still evil in the world as he is said to be omnibenevolent and also omnipotent meaning that he should be able to prevent there from being any evil in this world.
Some people may argue that although there is evil in the world God still exists as it wasn’t his choice for their to be evil, as he gave humans free will, and if they choose to be evil then it is their choice not His. For example, the fall, when Adam and Eve eat the apple from the tree. Free will leading to evil.
Summarise what people who agree or disagree with the Anthropic Principle, may say.
Somebody who agrees may say, that because evolution exists, so does God. This is because God is the one who is guiding us through evolution of certain things. For example, morality. Before it was illegal to be homosexual, and you were killed for it, but now it is acceptable, in fact a norm for this. And God is the one who would have Guided this, because he is “Just / Justice”
Somebody who disagrees with this, may say that God isn’t the one who guided us through evolution, but it was our own free will and intelligence that got us there. For example, technology, is our own free will to want to advance our technology, and it is not God guiding us through each step.
