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Questions

1. When God is said to be omniscient, that means that God is deemed to be (A) all good, (B) all knowing, (C) all powerful, (D) eternal, (E) present everywhere.

2. Someone who argues that we cannot know whether God exits or not is called a/n (A) theist, (B) monotheist, (C) atheist, (D) henotheist, (E) agnostic.

3. Someone who argues that there are many gods, but one rules over them all is called a/n (A) theist, (B) monotheist, (C) atheist, (D) henotheist, (E) agnostic.

4. Cosmological arguments for God's existence appeal to (A) some fundamental structure or truth about existence, (B) the reality of morality, (C) the complex order we see in the universe, (D) the nature of God's being, (E) evil in the world.

5. William Paley's teleological argument for God's existence appeals to (A) some fundamental structure or truth about existence, (B) the reality of morality, (C) the complex order we see in the universe, (D) the nature of God's being, (E) evil in the world.

6. The Cosmological Argument offered by Frederick Copleston hinges on what key principle? (A) Principle of Identicals, (B) Law of Non-Contradiction, (C) 1st Law of Thermodynamics, (D) 2nd Law of Thermodyn mics, (E) Principle of Sufficient Reason.

7. The following would be an independent being. (A) a piece of fruit, (B) an angel, (C) God, (D) your philosophy instructor, (E) the Greek god Zeus.

8. In the first part of the Cosmological Argument that we studied in this week's "Introduction," what looked most like a problem? (A) Premise 1 was doubtful, (B) Premise 4 was ambiguous, (C) Premise 2 was doubtful, (D) the argument appeared invalid, (E) the language was vague.

9. According to Copleston's Cosmological Argument, what ultimately needs explanation?

(A) God's existence, (B) the existence of the set of independent beings, (C) the existence of the set of dependent beings, (D) the existence of motion, (E) the existence of change.

10. One important problem with Copleston's Cosmological Argument is (A) it is invalid, (B) the independent being of the conclusion may not be God, (C) the Principle of Identicals is highly questionable, (D) no law of Thermodynamics has been proved fully, (E) the equivocation on the word 'Being'.

11. A famous advocate of the Design Argument is (A) Bertrand Russell, (B) William Paley, (C) Frederick Copleston, (D) David Hume, (E) John Hick.

12. The Design Argument for God's existence is usually presented as a/n (A) reduction ad absurdum, (B) argument from analogy, (C) appeal to authority, (D) indirect proof, (E) conditional proof.

13. In offering a version of the Design Argument for God's existence, one might well refer to (A) the mere existence of dependent beings, (B) the existence of an independent being, (C) the apparent uselessness of the human appendix, (D) the intricate organization of the human eye,(E) the suffering experienced in genocide.

14. David Hume challenged the Design Argument for God's existence by showing that to
conclude that God exits is (A) ambiguous, (B) too vague, (C) culturally biased, (D) too specific, (E) a fallacious appeal to authority.

15. An attempt to explain why an all-good and all-powerful God could allow evil in the world is called a (A) theocracy, (B) theodicy, (C) theology, (D) theosophy, (E) theopatry.

16. A serious concern in trying to explain God's allowance of evil by saying that He uses it to achieve the higher good of human development is that it (A) limits His power, (B) undercuts His eternity, (C) questions His omnipresence, (D) assumes what it tries to prove, (E) all of the above.

17. Another concern in trying to explain God's allowance of evil by saying that He uses it to achieve the higher good of human development is that (A) it takes Him out of eternity, (B) the claim is vague, (C) it applies only to polytheism, (D) there is far too much evil in the world, (E) evil is actually an illusion.

18. A serious problem for the Free Will Defense to the Argument from Evil is (A) natural evil, (B) God's supposed omnipresence, (C) God's supposed eternity, (D) the issue of the free will of angles and higher primates, (E) moral evil.

19. Who argued that we may not be able to argue definitively for God's existence, but it was still prudent to believe in Him? (A) William James, (B) Frederick Copleston, (C) William Paley, (D) Blaise Pascal, (E) W. K. Clifford.

20. Who argued that it was wrong for everyone always to believe something without sufficient evidence? (A) William James, (B) Frederick Copleston, (C) William Paley, (D) Blaise Pascal, (E) W. K. Clifford.