CCEA AS 8 Philosophy of Religion overview quiz quiz

A priori and deductive, proving God from the concept of God

A posteriori and inductive, reasoning from observed order to a designer

A purely logical argument requiring no observation of the world

An argument from religious experience and personal testimony

A growing vegetable compared to the universe

An arrow directed by an archer towards a target

A watch found on a heath implying a watchmaker

A first domino set in motion by a hand

Charles Darwin

William Paley

Thomas Aquinas

Richard Swinburne

That the universe is just a brute fact needing no explanation

That evil shows there cannot be a good designer

That religious experiences point to a 'something more'

That the fine-tuned constants of physics suggest design

The cosmological argument

The ontological argument

The moral argument

The argument from religious experience

Everything that exists has been designed for a purpose

Whatever begins to exist has a cause

We should believe things are as they seem

Evil is a privation of goodness

That the universe was designed by an apprentice deity

That religious experience proves God directly

That the universe is just there, a brute fact needing no cause

That evil makes God's existence impossible

Motion, causation and contingency

Ineffability, noetic quality and transiency

God's omnipotence, God's omnibenevolence and the existence of evil

Credulity, testimony and verification

Moral evil is caused by human free choices; natural evil arises from natural causes

Moral evil is a privation; natural evil is a positive force

Moral evil affects the soul; natural evil affects only the body

Moral evil is logical; natural evil is merely evidential

As a tool of soul-making in an immature world

As the inevitable side effect of fine-tuning

As good evidence misread by atheists

As a privation of goodness that entered through the fall

The world is a place of soul-making in which suffering develops virtue

Evil is simply an illusion with no real existence

God is not powerful enough to prevent natural evil

Religious experience outweighs the problem of evil

Verifiability

Ineffability

Contingency

Omnipotence

The unmoved mover

The greatest happiness

The numinous

The privation of good

That we should believe things are as they seem unless there is special reason to doubt

That only experiences shared by a group can be trusted

That all religious experiences across religions must be equally true

That experience can never count as evidence for God

That the universe is finely tuned for life

That evil is a privation of goodness

That contingent beings require a necessary being

That experiences can be explained by psychology, neuroscience or drugs