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SSFT Midterm, Dudt Questions and Answers 2024
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SSFT Midterm, DudtPromise of science and technology - answer Completeness
(science has limits in finding meaning)
Personal vs impersonal approaches to nature - answer Personal: engagement, regard,
value
Impersonal: disengagement, disregard, devalue
Ironic results of our scientific/technological progress - answer We are smarter but
dumber
The technological society means: - answer Search for "one best means," not just a lot of
technology.
We assume older things are worse.
Technology often does what we don't expect and changes us in unexpected ways
Ethical parameters are hazey.
The device paradigm - answerModern technology provides goods and services as
efficiently as possible while hiding the means of production
Nature as ____ - answerneutral
However, God created the rules of nature, and nothing is out of the reach of Christianity.
Blessings of keeping the covenant - answer1. continuing fellowship with God
2. live in paradise
3. Realizing goal of dominion
4. Brotherhood
The mandate defined (2) - answerDominion and stewardship
Consequences of the fall - answerGod's protection is diminished.
Man wants to write the rules of engagement with creation.
Conflict occurs.
, Man's dominion in nature is diminished. Loss of self control => selfishness.
Futility of much of work and disruption of progress
Fulfilling the mandate after the fall (3 problems). - answerMay go too far in doing
something good.
May take wrong actions hoping to do good.
Or fails to respond.
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General revelation definition - answerKnowledge of God and knowledge of nature
gained through reflection on and study of natural phenomena.
What does general revelation do? - answerCauses humans to reflect on the existence
of God.
Cosmological argument for God (from general revelation) - answerEverything has a
cause, so the universe has to as well.
Teleological (design) argument for God (from general revelation) - answerArgument
from design and purpose. Orderliness of natural laws suggests designed with a
purpose.
Polkinghorne's view on nature - answerNature could have been
- chaotic and unknowable
- rational but too complex
- or what we have - *a universe that can be understood*
Means *God wants to be known*
Paul Dirac on math - answer"It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than
to have them fit experiment."
Appeal to God's existence from beauty.
Limits of general revelation - answerPeople create God in their own image (eg.
paganism, deism, liberal theology).
Might be used to discount special revelation.
Inherently inadequate to convince the unbeliever.
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