Arguments based on observation for the existence of God

Who is the latest scholar we looked at, who tried to prove the existence of God?

• Aristotle

• St Thomas Aquinas

• William Paley

• Richard Swinburne

Which of these did Thomas Aquinas NOT write about?

• Ontological

• Cosmological

• Analogical

• Teleological

Whose theory of the 4 causes did Aquinas use?

• Plato

• Swinburne

• Paley

• Aristotle

Which of the 4 causes is the most important for Aquinas' teleological argument?

• Material

• Formal

• Efficient

• Final

An argument which uses evidence to come to a probable conclusion is...

• A posteriori

• A priori

• Deductive

• Inductive

One of the key ideas of the cosmological argument is...

• Creator and creation

• Action and reaction

• Cause and effect

• Past and present

Infinite regress is...

• The process of going back and finding a beginning

• The process of going forwards and finding a cause

• The process of going backwards and finding a cause

• The process of going back with no beginning

Which of these is included in Aquinas' idea of motion? (More than one answer)

• Moving from one place to another

• Changing from one state to another

• Moving into existence

• Spontaneous combustion

Actuality is...

• The process of becoming

• What is might become

• What is was previously

• How it is

The second way related to necessity and contingency.

• True

• False