WorksheetsArguments based on observation & reason (CHS)
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What are aquinas' three ways?
movement epistemology causation
Motion Causation Contingency
Whose argument is this?
"A watch has complexity purpose and order which imply it has a designer or watchmaker. ........ used this example to symbolise the world which he argues is so complex and has purpose so it must have a designer/creator. This must be God"
Anslem
Richard Swinburne
William Paley
Aquinas
How does Gaunillo respond to Anselm's first argument ?
He says we can not trust sensory experience
He says that anselm trying to move from the definition of God to the suggestion of his existence is not a valid move.
Relations of ideas never tell us anything significant about the world do it is impossible to use them to draw the conclusion that God exists
The premise "God is a necessary being" can be critiqued.
Is this one of David Hume's argument against the design argument? :
"The argument does not demonstrate the existence of a perfect being. This would contradict the idea that the designer was God."
True
False
What's Hume's second argument?
The design argument can not show that the architect has the same divine attributes of the traditional God of theism which could be used against the idea that God actually exists.
It is possible that the appearance of destiny occurred through natural processes therefore there would be no need for a designer
Fill in the blank: “God is a being than which (a) ”- Anselm
What does contingency mean?
Something which is not necessary, which depends on something else for its existence
Something which is necessary and doesn't depend on something else for its existence
What is infinite regress?
Events that lead to something
A chain of events that go back to infinity
6. P1 -
P2 – nothing is its own cause
P3 – a chain of causes cannot be infinite
P4 – there must be a first cause
C – the first cause is God
What is the missing premise?
Everything causes something
Everything is aware of its own cause
There has always been a first cause
Everything has a cause
How did Aquinas respond to the objection that the cosmological argument contradicts itself by assuming that God is the "uncaused" cause?
Aquinas argued that God is not an uncaused cause.
Aquinas argued that the universe is eternal - it has no beginning point.
Aquinas argued that ours is a universe of limited, dependent beings. Their existence requires an infinite being that is outside of the laws of our universe and not dependent on anything.
