The Existence of God

Generally characterized as the attempt to establish religious truths by rational argument and without reliance upon alleged revelations.

• Metaphysics

• Empirical Theology

• Natural Theology

• Phenomenology

"Covenant of night and day"

• Jeremiah

• Paul

• Revelation

• Luke

“If it seems to a subject that X is present, then probably X is present; what one perceives is probably so” is called as principle of?

• Progression

• Testimony

• Credulity

• Design

T or F: Swimburne uses a deductive argument which cast reasoning from the world to God

• True

• False

T or F: A valid deductive argument is one in which, if you affirm the premises but deny the conclusion, you contradict yourself.

• True

• False

T or F: Inductive argument states that premises make the conclusion to some extent probable, perhaps very probable, but not certain.

• False

• True

T or F: There are four arguments cited by Swimburne leading to the existence of the Divine

• False

• True

T or F: There are four criteria presented by Swimburne for one to consider a good argument

• True

• False

Universe exists because there is a divine person who keeps it in existence and that laws of nature operate because there is a divine person who brings it about that they do.

• Hypothesis of Deism

• Hypothesis of Theism

• Hypothesis of Atheism

• Hypothesis of Agnosticism

a proposition that knowable independently of experience is called as?

• A priori

• A posteriori