PHIL 201 QUIZ 6

  

Question 1 

1. Fideists argue that to think      rightly about religious matters, one should put aside all religious      commitments and be completely neutral.

True 

False 

3 points   

Question 2 

1. If Miranda chooses to simply write      off any criticisms of her religious views as simply being the product of      coming from non-believers, she is acting like:

  

A neutralist

 

A naturalist

 

A Christian

 

A fideist

3 points   

Question 3 

1. Since historians and sociologists      sometimes study religious beliefs, they are also philosophers of religion.

True 

False 

3 points   

Question 4 

1. What view holds that genuine      religious knowledge must consist of truths that are known with absolute      certainty?

  

Neutralism

 

Naturalism

 

Fideism

 

Foundationalism

3 points   

Question 5 

1. In a critical dialogue about      religious beliefs, Evans recommends beginning by asking the other person      to accept your own religious presuppositions.

True 

False 

3 points   

Question 6 

1. What is the term used to describe      God’s awareness of future events, including the future choices that humans      will make?

  

Divine   foreknowledge

 

Predestination

 

Open Theism

 

Divine wisdom

3 points   

Question 7 

1. Dualists believe in one God.

True 

False 

3 points   

Question 8 

1. Which solution to the divine      foreknowledge versus human freedom problem claims that God possessed some      knowledge prior to creation that he used to decide how to create the      world?

  

Middle knowledge

 

Open theism

 

Theological   compatibilism

 

Eternal divinity

3 points   

Question 9 

1. Natural theologians attempt to see      what can be known about God independently of any specific religious      authority.

True 

False 

3 points   

Question 10 

1. It is a requirement of freedom      that one possess alternate possibilities, meaning that in order to act      freely, there must be more than one thing to do.

True 

False 

3 points   

Question 11 

1. _________ arguments are also known      as first-cause arguments because they attempt to infer that God must exist      as the first cause of the universe.

  

Cosmological

 

Moral

 

Ontological

 

Teleological

3 points   

Question 12 

1. This type of argument attempts to      show that the very idea  of God somehow implies that God actually      exists.

  

Moral

 

Teleological

 

Cosmological

 

Ontological

3 points   

Question 13 

1. The cosmological argument and the      teleological argument complement each other and therefore could be viewed      as part of a general case for the plausibility of theism.

True 

False 

3 points   

Question 14 

1. Which argument is often referred      to as the argument from design:

  

Cosmological

 

Moral

 

Teleological

 

Ontological

3 points   

Question 15 

1. The ________ says that there are      no real moral obligations. When a person says an act is wrong, he is      expressing his individual feelings about the act.

  

Cultural Relativist

 

Emotivist

 

Egoist

 

Empiricist

3 points   

Question 16 

1. The Kalam version of the      cosmological argument is a temporal form of the argument.

True 

False 

3 points   

Question 17 

1. The aim of a best explanations      approach to the question of God’s existence is to prove for certain that      God exists.

True 

False 

3 points   

Question 18 

1. According to Craig, atheists like      Camus and Russell are inconsistent to promote love and brotherhood.

True 

False 

3 points   

Question 19 

1. The moral argument claims that if      objective moral norms exist, then God must exist because objective      morality entails a moral law maker.

True 

False 

3 points   

Question 20 

1. To say that my case for God’s      existence is ‘defeasible’ is to say: