PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION| 2023| QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS VERIFIED AND PASSED
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Cosmological Argument
Thomas Aquinas - CORRECT ANSWER 1) There are things that are caused.
2) Nothing can be the cause of itself.
3) An infinite regress of causes is impossible.
4) Therefore, there must be an uncaused first cause
5) The word "God" means uncaused first cause.
6) Therefore...
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION | 2023 | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS VERIFIED AND PASSED Cosmological Argument Thomas Aquinas - CORRECT ANSWER 1) There are things that are caused. 2) Nothing can be the cause of itself. 3) An infinite regress of causes is impossible. 4) Therefore, there must be an uncaused first cause 5) The word "God" means uncaused first cause. 6) Therefore, God exists. Cosmological Objection 1 - CORRECT ANSWER The word "God" means more than uncaused first cause. Cosmological Objection 2 - CORRECT ANSWER How do we know an infinite regress of causes is impossible? William Craig - CORRECT ANSWER Supports Premise 3 With Hilbert's Hotel: 1) Assume an actual infinite is possible. 2) It would be possible to build a hotel with infinitely many rooms. PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION | 2023 | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS VERIFIED AND PASSED 3) It would be possible for all the rooms to be full. 4) Suppose twenty people check out of the hotel. 5) Now there are twenty fewer people in the hotel. 6) However, infinity minus twenty is still infinity so there are the same number of people in t he hotel. 7) Premises 5 and 6 contradict. 8) Therefore, an actual infinite is impossible. Teleological Argument William Paley - CORRECT ANSWER 1) Human artifacts are product of intelligent design. 2) The universe resembles human artifacts. 3) The univ erse is vastly more complex than human artifacts. 4) Therefore, the universe is probably the product of a vastly more intelligent designer. Hume's Objections to the Teleological Argument - CORRECT ANSWER 1) You can't argue from parts to the whole
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