Exam 4: Philosophy and God

____________________ denies the major claims of all varieties of theism.

Ninian Smart suggests that religion has four dimensions.

Aquinas offered a version of the cosmological argument.

Samsara ends with ____________________.

Outline the Problem of Evil. Is this a problem for all religions, or not? Explain your answer. Do you think that this Problem can be met by the adherents of those religions that you believe it to be a problem for?

The Second Noble Truth identifies the source of the suffering that we experience in living as ____________________.

"The Road" is a parable told by John Hick.

Anselm offered a version of the ontological argument.

One objection to the design argument comes from the theory of evolution.

The Third Noble Truth concerns the ending of samsara.

The belief in a personal God who is the creator of the world, present in its processes, and with whom we may come into contact, is

The chief proponent of radical theology in our time is

Dembski argued that anything with "specified complexity" has to be produced by an intelligent being.

The mystical consciousness of the holy is termed ____________________ ____________________.

The view that the morality of an action is determined by the happiness or unhappiness that it produces is called ____________________.

Paley was the first to develop the argument from design.

Outline Anselm's ontological argument for the existence of God. Do you believe that Kant's objection to this argument is successful? Explain your answer.

Ernest Nagle rejected atheism.

In what ways might it matter how we define religion? In answering this question this question think of the special status that we often afford religious beliefs and their accompanying practices, as opposed to non-religious moral beliefs and practices.

Do you believe that religion should be reason-based, faith-based, or experience-based? In answering this question take care both to justify your view, and also to explain what the differences between these approaches are.