Exam 2: God and Religion

Philo declares that this world is the perfect product of a perfect deity.

In Hick's view, because God is good and loving, the environment that he has created for human life is naturally as pleasant and comfortable as possible.

James claims that, if the evidence for God's existence is lacking, then one must refrain from believing in God.

Rowe's story of the dying fawn in the forest is meant to show that

Paley says that if we found a watch and examined it closely, we would naturally infer that it had a maker-even if we had never seen a watch made.

Aquinas says that the first efficient cause of everything is

According to Hick, a certain amount of evil in the world is

Hick says that it is possible to show that each item of human pain serves the divine purpose.

Believing that God exists increases the probability that God does in fact exist.

Pascal believes that when it comes to the question of God's existence

Craig says an actually infinite number of things

Behe says that an irreducibly complex biological system would be a powerful challenge to

According to Rowe, if we grant to Anselm the premise that God is a possible being, the argument is sound.

What is Pascal's wager? Do you find his argument convincing? Why or why not? Critics have accused Pascal of committing the fallacy of false dilemma. What do they mean by this? Is their criticism valid?

Pascal believes that belief in God is a rational act.

Kant says that "Being" is not a real

The point of Pascal's wager is to prove that God exists.

According to Aquinas, an infinite regress of causes is

According to a 2017 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, 1 in 10 adult Americans do not believe in any higher power or spiritual force.

According to Behe, the gradual accumulation of mutations