Chapter 5 Self Quiz

. The ontological argument is an a posteriori argument.

True

False

. The big bang theory gives some support to the fundamentalist Christian view that God created the world about 4000 B.C.

True

False

. What a normal observer is observing and other normal observers could/would observe under similar conditions constitutes our criteria for the

religiosity of the perception.

veridicality of the perception.

teleology of the perception.

None of the above

. If we refuse to consider horrible visions as possible religious experiences, we are

using an argument from ignorance.

we are committing the ad hominem fallacy.

begging the question against what counts as religious experiences.

None of the above

. In "Surprise It's Judgment Day," what argument is Martin referring to when he says "Anselm and Descartes claimed that the definition of a perfect God necessarily implies that he exists"?

The ontological argument

Cosmological argument

The teleological argument

None of the above

. "A being with logically necessary existence." This phrase indicates a being who is such that it

can't be made not to exist if it exists.

must exist.

must think logically if it exists.

None of the above

. A person who isn't sure whether or not God exists is calleda(n)

atheist.

agnostic.

theist.

None of the above

. The "problem of suffering" is the problem of how God could allow suffering if God is

omnipotent.

omniscience.

omnipotent and omniscient.

None of the above

. Proving that it is impossible to have happiness without unhappiness wouldn't justify God creating the world like this one because it doesn't

mention free will.

say how much unhappiness.

mention generosity.

None of the above

. "It is wrong always and everywhere and for anyone to believe anything on insufficient evidence." This quote is from

William K Clifford.

William James.

Blaise Pascal.

Soren Kierkegaard.

. William James says that we may believe in God without evidence if

we're convinced by Pascal's wager argument.

the choice to believe seems while live, momentous and forced.

we have thought through the choice carefully.

None of the above

. According to Kierkegaard, if God made the truth of his existence obvious, it would have

made believing too easy.

been a welcome change.

made it easier to make a "leap of faith."

None of the above

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