FYS 101 – Faith and Reason: Craig pages 93-106 Reading Quiz

According to the text, what magazine ran numerous articles about God’s existence from the 1960s through the 1980s?

• Newsweek

• Time

• National Geographic

In his cosmological arguments, Thomas Aquinas argued in favor of a First Cause in three ways: by motion, by causation in the natural world, and by

• God’s nonexistence being inconceivable.

• a proof for an Absolutely Necessary Being based on the existence of contingent beings.

• the natural order of the universe and its physical laws.

Leibniz’s Principle of Sufficient Reason holds that

• there must be a reason/explanation for the existence of one state of affairs over another.

• moral experiences are just as reasonable as physical experiences.

• infinite regress is absurd.

In "On Philosophy," Aristotle claimed people “would have judged both that there exist gods and that all these marvelous works are the handiwork of the gods” after watching

• the movements of heavenly bodies like the planets and constellations.

• the growth of a seedling into a tree.

• the aftermath of earthquakes and floods.

In Paley’s teleological argument, he asks what he might make of it if he were walking along a beach and found a

• skeleton.

• manuscript.

• watch.

According to William Sorley, where is the only place where intrinsic objective moral values reside?

• in nature

• in persons

• in philosophy