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Cosmo and Teleo
Cosmo and Teleo
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Who wrote the First Cause Argument?
St Augustine of Hippo
St Thomas Aquinas
St Nicholas
St Anlem of Assisi
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The anthropic principle suggests that nature is fine tuned for human existence
False
True
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Who stated of the cosmological arguement "if you stop and go no further, why go so far?"
David Hume
Why is that important?
David Hasselhof
Marvin Humes
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It is fair to compare the universe to a watch?
True
False
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The Cosmological Argument is built on the premise that....
Everything has a cause
The Universe appears designed
The infinite is possible
God is all powerful
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What did William Paley do for a living?
Minister
Write analogies to torment N5 classes
Scientist
Watch maker
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What does faulty design, like the shoe bill bird suggest about God?
If he exists he is not like Christians believe him to be
He doesn't exist
He is all powerful
He is an ornithologist
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Why is the infinite not possible according to Aquinas?
The infinite is too hard to think of
The present would never arrive
It would take too long
Just because...
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Who is this atheist philosopher?
David Attenburough
Bertrand Russell
Richard Dawkins
Skeletor
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Analological arguments give 100% proof?
False
True
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Some believe that the cosmological argument is self contradictory.
False
True
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Oscillating universe theory could prove the universe is infinite?
True
False
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What did Paley say about a pocketwatch?
It had purpose and complexity
They were usually found in your pocket
You could never understand how it worked
It was full of cogs
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Big bang happened.....
13.6 million years ago
6000 years ago
On channel 4 about 8 years ago
13.6 billion years ago
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All the laws of physics are fixed and predicable?
Yes Issac Newton proved it
What is physics
No Quantum Theory can be spontaneous.
Yes, even in quantum physics things are fixed.
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In Paley's mind what is good evidence of design in the natural universe?
The eye
The Iphone X
Male nipples
The blind spot
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Who discovered the theory of evolution?
Chuck Berry
Charles Darwin
Richard Dawkins
Charlie Brown
