Finalpyhtest

Front 1

Which of the following is not one of the three monotheistic religions:

Back 1

Buddhism

Front 2

The cosmological argument is an example of an a posteriori argument, an argument that is based on experience:

Back 2

True

Front 3

St. Augustine would argue that the problem of evil argument is a plausible argument.

Back 3

False

Front 4

What does Thomas Aquinas believe?

Back 4

Reason and observation corroborate faith.

Front 5

According to the “teleological argument,” the design of the universe could not have happened by chance.

Back 5

True

Front 6

What do the cosmological and the teleological arguments have in common?

Back 6

argument from design, in the sense that there should be a universal designer.

Front 7

Kant invented the _______ argument for the existence of god.

Back 7

moral

Front 8

An example of an a posteriori argument is Kant’s moral argument.

Back 8

False

Front 9

Which association of argument and philosopher is incorrect?

Back 9

Teleological- St. Augustine

Front 10

The theodicy called the “inscrutability of God defense” is the one that claims it is impossible to know what love is, what omnipotence is, and what evil is.

Back 10

False

Front 11

Which of the following theodicies are intended to explain natural evil.

Back 11

Evil as a therapy defense

Front 12

The analogy that has Jeffery Dahmer knocking on the door in order to ask the parents if he can torture the children, and the parents allowing him to do so only on one day out of the year, best exposes the problem with the

Back 12

Goodness of the whole defense

Front 13

One problem with the argument from causation is that

Back 13

The argument is incoherent in that the universe must have a first cause, but the first cause itself, does not need cause.

Front 14

According to “natural theology,” knowledge of God may be acquired by

Back 14

All of the above(Reason, Empirical observation, Experience)

Front 15

The “moral” for the existence of God assumes that there is an objective moral law that is unchanging and not relative to culture.

Back 15

True

Front 16

All “arguments” for the existence of god fall into the category of

Back 16

Natural theology

Front 17

The moral argument for the existence of god should be associated with

Back 17

None of the above (Kant)

Front 18

The word “a posteriori” means

Back 18

Subsequent to experience