Chapter 5 Self Quiz

The Existence of God
. The ontological argument is an a posteriori argument.

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

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

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

. 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"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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