OCR RS revision - Existence of God

What is the meaning of the word 'cosmos'?

• the galaxy
• the cosmopolitan
• the universe
• the world

Which philosopher argues that the existence of the universe is simply 'brute fact'?

• Frederick Copleston
• Bertrand Russell
• St Thomas Aquinas
• Richard Dawkins

What is Aquinas' third way?

• The argument from contingency
• The unmoved mover
• The uncaused causer

What is the fallacy of composition?

• The criticism of Paley's watch analogy.
• The argument that Aquinas' analogy of the archer and the arroe is flawed.
• Hume's analogy of the builder and architect.
• The argument that just because causation is perceived in the world on an individual level, it does not mean that there is a cause to the whole series.

Aquinas' Fifth Way is an example of what kind of argument?

• Cosmological
• Teleological
• Theological
• Ontological

What analogy does William Paley use to prove design in the universe?

• Watch

• Phone

• Thumb

• Gravity

The Scientific Theory of Evolution, first posed by Charles Darwin in Origin of the Species, poses that the intricacy of life sprang from the process of natural selection, not a pre-designed plan.  This argument most clearly attacks

• The Ontological Proof
• The Teleological Proof
• The Constitutional Proof
• The Cosmological Proof

The Cosmological Argument claims that the universe

•  goes back into infinity
• contains more than one intelligent life form
• has to have had a first cause
• is not yet understood, and all stories are myths

What is an inductive argument?

• An argument in where the conclusion is possible but never certain

• An argument where the conclusion is 100% certain

• An argument where there is no conclusion

• An argument that has at least 5 premises

What is the Teleological argument also known as?

• Argument from Motion and change

• The argument from design and purpose

• Cosmological argument

• The Goldilocks theory