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Question 1

Does faith assume that you have no evidence for believing what you believe

Answer 1

No, because if what you put your faith in is true, there will be evidence

Question 2

What is the most important question that a persons worldview answers?

Answer 2

What is the thing from which everything else comes

Question 3

What worldview do most atheists hold on to?

Answer 3

Materialism

Question 4

What worldview is in star wars

Answer 4

Pantheism

Question 5

How can abductive reasoning help us to determine the origin of the universe?

Answer 5

We didn’t see the beginning of the universe, so we can look at everything now and work backwards from there

Question 6

The 19th century saw a dramatic move away from Theism toward undirected evolution. Was this a result of scientific discovery or the personal philosophy of scientists

Answer 6

A personal philosophy because they didn’t see evolution, they only saw common traits

Question 7

What did Hubble discover about the universe

Answer 7

It was expanding

Question 8

What theory arose from bubbles discovery

Answer 8

Big Bang theory

Question 9

How does the Big Bang theory support the biblical claim that “in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”

Answer 9

They both support that there was a beginning to the universe

Question 10

What does the God hypothesis include that the Big Bang theory does not

Answer 10

A creator

Question 11

Redshift, and Hawkins solutions the the field of equations of general relativity which suggest a beginning point to both time and space

Answer 11

Proves creatio ex nehilio

Question 12

There’s not enough mass I. The currently expanding universe to cause a gravitational recollapse; besides, the expansion is accelerating,not slowing

Answer 12

Proves the oscillating universe theory

Question 13

The discovery of background radiation: remnant energy coming from hot, super condensed matter- energy that would not be present if this theory were true

Answer 13

Disproves the steady state theory

Question 14

What is the most compelling evidence for the intelligent design of the universe

Answer 14

Fine tuning of the laws of physics and chemistry

Question 15

How many conditions of the universe must be “just right” in order for human life to exist? What are some of these conditions

Answer 15

35, gravity and the expanding of the universe

Question 16

Why is the problem with the weak anthropoid principal?

Answer 16

It doesn’t explain why necessary conditions of life are so finely tuned

Question 17

What is the problem with the many worlds hypothesis

Answer 17

Who or what is generating these universes. There is no evidence for the other universes

Question 18

What does intelligent design say

Answer 18

Things look designed because they are

Question 19

What does Darwinism say

Answer 19

Things look designed, but they are NOT

Question 20

What are the two parts of evolutionary theory?

Answer 20

Chemical evolution and biological evolution

Question 21

In Darwins day, what did scientists think about the simple makeup of a cell?

Answer 21

They thought it was a simple globule of plasm

Question 22

What is the function of DNA within the cell

Answer 22

Information in DNA directs the making of protein in the cell

Question 23

What is the only example of specified, functional information

Answer 23

Intelligence

Question 24

What are the odds that a single functional protein could come together by random chance?

Answer 24

1 in 10(to the 164 power)

Question 25

How many proteins does it take to make up the simplest single-cell organism?

Answer 25

250-400

Question 26

Why are serious scientists not thinking that life began by chance?

Answer 26

Chance is not a good hypothesis, the odds are too great

Question 27

What is the problem with the prebiotic natural selection hypothesis

Answer 27

It's not alive yet

Question 28

What is the problem with the self organization hypothesis

Answer 28

Natural forces of attraction do not explain the info produced

Question 29

If something looks designed what do we naturally conclude

Answer 29

It was designed

Question 30

Materialists used to believe that life was made of matter and energy alone. What 20th century discovery has made scientists unable to explain the origin of life?

Answer 30

Information in the cell

Question 31

Why is the intelligent design hypothesis not an option for many scientists

Answer 31

Because it concludes that there is a greater being

Question 32

What should be the most important rule of science?

Answer 32

We should evaluate both sides, follow the evidence where it leads

Question 33

What evidence do we have in the fossil record that disproves Darwins idea of a gradual morphing of life forms over time

Answer 33

There was a sudden appearance of major life forms, not a slow gradual build up to what we have today

Question 34

What are the 3 key conditions for an objective morality?

Answer 34

- objective standard - human free will - intrinsic value of humans

Question 35

Describe " theistic virtue ethics"

Answer 35

We are designed to reflect Gods character; he designed us to where we function best

Question 36

What does the materialist believe about morality- what is right and wrong

Answer 36

There is no right and wrong

Question 37

What do materialists think of human free will. And what are we determined by?

Answer 37

There is no free will, we are determined by genes, environment, and evolutionary history

Question 38

To the materialist,what is just as valuable as human life

Answer 38

There is no qualities differences between animals, humans, or any other life form

Question 39

Describe the philosophy of Moral relativism

Answer 39

There are no objective ethical norms/ no standard/ can't call me wrong

Question 40

What is the problem with relativism

Answer 40

It implies that there are no ethical disagreements, no ethical errors, and progress in ethics is impossible

Question 41

What are some things that you cannot do if you are a "moral relativist"?

Answer 41

- can't accuse others of wrongdoing - can't complain about being mistreated - can't blame others or accept moral praise - can't make changes of unfairness or injustice

Question 42

Explain how the actions of all people reveal that they truly do believe in objective moral standards

Answer 42

They don't want any rules, but they want other people to follow them/ double standards

Question 43

What is the problem with evolutionary ethics(3things)

Answer 43

- it destroys any reason to obey moral norms - can't establish which instincts to indulge and which to suppress - can't account for altruism/ doing something selfless

Question 44

What is evolutionary ethics

Answer 44

Moral rules developed from "moral sentiments" or "moral emotions"

Question 45

What is the only logical explanation for the existence of an objective moral code

Answer 45

GOD

Question 46

What are the three tests used to determine the reliability of a historical document?

Answer 46

Internal evidence test Bibliographical test External test

Question 47

What question does internal evidence answer

Answer 47

Is the original written record accurate and true

Question 48

What question does external evidence answer

Answer 48

Is the content of the document supported by other sources

Question 49

What question does bibliographical test answer

Answer 49

Is the text we now have the same as what was originally written

Question 50

What 20th century discovery proved that the Old Testament had been accurately copied over the last 2000

Answer 50

Dead Sea scrolls

Question 51

A complete manuscript of the book of Isaiah was among the documents discovered. When was it determined to have been written?

Answer 51

125 B.C.

Question 52

What do the writers of the OT scriptures claim about the source of their writing?

Answer 52

Idk

Question 53

If the 1st question is "where did it all come from" then what is question 2

Answer 53

Is the bible reliable, who is God

Question 54

How and why do materialists view the bible

Answer 54

The bible must be man made

Question 55

Explain Wellhausen's theory of the evolutionary origin of religion

Answer 55

He thought that religion evolved from pantheism to polytheism to monotheism

Question 56

Summarize Wellhausen's documentary hypothesis and his reasons for it

Answer 56

He claimed that the Torah was written by multiple authors, over 100s of years and more than a thousand years after the events actually happened

Question 57

What are some of the precise details given in the biblical text which situate it in the middle Bronze Age, the time of the events it describes

Answer 57

- covenants - law codes - personal names - place names

Question 58

What and where is tel el-Dab'a

Answer 58

It is an archaeological dig in ancient Goshen

Question 59

Describe 2 archaeological discoveries that provide evidence for the presence of Israel in Egypt

Answer 59

Israelite houses, Brooklyn papyrus

Question 60

Amarna letters

Answer 60

- referring to raids and conquest | - Hebrew term "Habiru" is used

Question 61

Merenptah stele

Answer 61

- records an attack in Canaan by Pharoh | - mentions Israel as part of Canaan and refers to it as a Dominant Nation

Question 62

Describe 2 archaeological discoveries that provide evidence for the presence of Israel in Canaan

Answer 62

Amarna letters, Merenptah stele

Question 63

Israelite houses

Answer 63

4 rooms | Pillared house plant

Question 64

Brooklyn papyrus

Answer 64

77 slaves names found | Names were Hebrew

Question 65

Describe the archaeological evidence we have for the Israelites 40 years of wilderness wandering

Answer 65

Egyptian temple inscription-an archaeological inscription saying "land of the nomads of Yaweh"

Question 66

According to the bible, why did God command his people, the Israelites, to wipe out the people of Canaan

Answer 66

Because of their idolotry/ child sacrifice

Question 67

What archaeological evidence has been found which supports the Biblical account of the destruction of Jericho?

Answer 67

- grain stores weren't plundered - destroyed by fire/destruction layer - walls of Jericho impressively fortified - walls fell outward

Question 68

What two archaeological discoveries situate Jericho's fall around the biblical date of 1400 BC

Answer 68

- Cypriot pottery | - Egyptian scarab beetles

Question 69

How is a worldview a type of faith

Answer 69

Faith is belief in a system of thought, a personal philosophy, which is a worldview