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WorksheetsArguments for God's existence
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Who compared the design and complexity of the natural world to the design and complexity of a watch?
William Shakespeare
William Paley
Aquinas
Aristotle
What does telos mean?
Design
Purpose
Causation
Motion
What are cosmological arguments for God's existence focused on?
Causation, motion, change or contingency
Design, complexity and or purpose
Logic and a priori assertions
Morals, ethics and goodness
Which is NOT a type of argument for God's existence?
Cosmological arguments
Teleological arguments
Ontological arguments
Deontological arguments
Ontological arguments for God's existence are based on ...
Motion, causation, change or contingency
Design, purpose or complexity
Morality, ethics and goodness
Logic and a priori assertions
Teleological arguments for God's existence are based on ...
Logic and a priori assertions
Design, purpose or complexity
Motion, causation, change or contingency
Morality, ethics and goodness
Who's theory of evolution can be used to counter teleological arguments?
Charles Darwin
F.R. Tennant
William Paley
Charlie Brown
Who puts forward arguments in both cosmological and teleological forms through the first, second, third and fifth 'ways'?
Aristotle
Descartes
Aquinas
Swinburne
Who argues that it makes more sense to compare the world to a cabbage than a watch?
F.R. Tennant
John Stuart Mill
Richard Swinburne
David Hume
Who used Ockham's Razor to argue that the existence of God is the simplest explanation?
Richard Dawkins
John Hick
Richard Swinburne
John Stuart Mill
Hume claims that the appearance of order in the universe could simply be down to chance, this is known as the ...
Teleological thesis
Epidemic thesis
Epicurean thesis
Extrapolation thesis
Who argued that the most we can infer from a flawed universe is a flawed God?
John Stuart Mill
John Hick
John Bishop
St John
Who put forward the anthropic principle (that conditions are so perfect for life to thrive that it must have been planned)?
Aquinas
F.R. Tennant
William Paley
Leibniz
Who argued against Aquinas, that infinite regression is not an impossibility, we just might not be able to imagine it?
William Paley
William Temple
Richard Dawkins
Richard Swinburne
Which are criticisms of the cosmological argument put forward by Hume? (2)
We cannot assume that just because everything in the universe has a cause then the entire collective universe has a cause
We cannot recognise any causation or motion in the universe
Is it necessary to suppose that everything has a cause?
The ontological argument is better
Who argued that 'God is the ground of being'?
Paul Williams
St Paul
Paul Tillich
Paul Paley
Who put forward the argument from sufficient reason?
Aristotle
Aquinas
Leibniz
Plato
Who put forward the ontological argument in two formulations, proslogion 2 and proslogion 3?
Aquinas
Augustine
Aristotle
Anselm
Anselm argues that God is the ...
Greatest conceivable being
Greatest architect on earth
Greatest master manipulator
Greatest made up nonsense
Who counters Anselm, arguing that through his logic you could imagine the perfect island into existence?
Mackie
Gaunilo
Leibniz
Kant
How does Anselm argue that God is a 'special case' compared to other things such as islands?
God is contingent on humanity
God is a necessary being
God does not really exist
God only exists in the mind
Who argued that existence is a defining predicate of God?
Anselm
Gaunilo
Kant
Descartes
How did Aquinas object to the ontological argument?
Existence is not a defining predicate
Through this logic we can imagine anything into existence
The only way to know God is through his effects in the world, we cannot be certain of the nature of God
God's nature cannot be agreed upon
Who argued against the ontological argument, claiming that existence cannot be a predicate?
Aquinas
Kant
Descartes
Gaunilo
Who was Anselm's intended audience when he put together the Ontological argument?
Non-believers
Believers
Non-believers and believers
God
