Introduction and Categories 1

Question 1

What did Thomas Henry Huxley say?

Answer 1

Whenever science and religion are at odds, religion is always crushed.

Question 2

Who was known as Darwin’s Bulldog?

Answer 2

Thomas Henry Huxley.

Question 3

What percentage of US scientist believe in life after death and that God answers prayer?

Answer 3

~40.

Question 4

Many US scientists believe in life after death and that God answers prayer. Is this proof of God’s existence?

Answer 4

No.

Question 5

Who is Richard Dawkins?

Answer 5

Most important atheist in the world today.

Question 6

Who is the most important atheist in the world today?

Answer 6

Richard Dawkins.

Question 7

What would Richard Dawkins say about the relationship between science and religion?

Answer 7

Science and religion only converge when it suits, and to an honest judge, the marriage is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.

Question 8

Who came up with the Two Divine Books model?

Answer 8

Sir Francis Bacon.

Question 9

What did Sir Francis Bacon come up with?

Answer 9

The Baconion Two Divine Books model.

Question 10

What are the two books in the Two Divine Books Model?

Answer 10

The Book of God’s Words and the Book of God’s Works.

Question 11

What does the Book of God’s Works represent?

Answer 11

Nature.

Question 12

What does the Book of God’s Words represent?

Answer 12

The Bible.

Question 13

Which of the Two Divine Books is verbal, and which is non-verbal?

Answer 13

The Book of God’s Works is non-verbal, while the Book of God’s words is verbal.

Question 14

What is the warfare model between science and religion?

Answer 14

You are forced to choose between only two positions, either science or religion.

Question 15

What are categories?

Answer 15

Foundational concepts that direct the way er look at and think about the world.

Question 16

Categories can be compared to…

Answer 16

Glasses and software.

Question 17

How can categories be compared to glasses and software?

Answer 17

Glasses give us a view of the world, and the software processes information through a program or a worldview.

Question 18

What are the two popular categories?

Answer 18

Dichotomies and conflations.

Question 19

What are dichotomies?

Answer 19

The division of an issue into only two simple positions.

Question 20

What are conflations?

Answer 20

Careless collapsing and co-mingling of distinct ideas into one undifferentiated concept.

Question 21

How can the conflict between science and religion be resolved?

Answer 21

Challenge popular categories and replace with professional categories.

Question 22

What is the result of peace between science and religion?

Answer 22

Allows a wide spectrum of possible relationships between science and religion, and allows you to develop your worldview and personal beliefs.

Question 23

“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is at bottom no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, ___ ___ pointless indifference.” -Richard Dawkins

Answer 23

Nothing but.

Question 24

The Two Divine Books Model is supported by people such as…

Answer 24

Bacon, Galileo, and Pope JPII.

Question 25

Which of the Two Divine Books offers general information, and which offers specific information?

Answer 25

God's Works offers general information, while God's Words offers specific information.

Question 26

What are the six basic categories of divine action?

Answer 26

1. Personal Interventionism. 2. Personal Providentialism. 3. Cosmological Interventionism in Origins. 4. Cosmological Interventionism in Operations. 5. Cosmological Providentialism in Origins. 6. Cosmological Providentialism in Operations.

Question 27

What is personal interventionism?

Answer 27

Miracles.

Question 28

What is personal providentialism?

Answer 28

Subtle nudges in life.

Question 29

What is cosmological interventionism in origins?

Answer 29

6 day creation.

Question 30

What is cosmological interventionism in operations?

Answer 30

Retrograde planetary motion.

Question 31

What is cosmological providentialism in origins?

Answer 31

God creating through evolution.

Question 32

What is cosmological providentialism in operations?

Answer 32

God working in the universe subtly.

Question 33

What is the proper ay to determine the category of divine action?

Answer 33

Determine context (people or origins/operations) and then determine mode (interventionism or providentialism).

Question 34

Moses parts the Red Sea. What category of divine action would this fall under?

Answer 34

Personal interventionism.

Question 35

Moses parts the Red Sea. This is categorized as personal interventionism, and not cosmological interventionism in operations. Why?

Answer 35

The personal overrides cosmological.

Question 36

What is retrograde planetary motion?

Answer 36

Luther believed that since Mars appeared to move backwards as the Earth revolved around the Sun, God was intervening and that Mars literally made loops in the sky.

Question 37

What is the Metaphysics-Physics Principle?

Answer 37

A principle that states that everyone makes a metaphysical jump as they apply beliefs to their science.

Question 38

What are the two structural components in the Metaphysics-Physics Principle?

Answer 38

1. Physics (science or facts). | 2. Metaphysics (religion/philosophy or beliefs).

Question 39

What is the relationship between the two structural components in the Metaphysics-Physics Principle?

Answer 39

"Upwards jump," where we do science, then ask the big question of "what is the ultimate reality behind our discoveries in nature?"

Question 40

What is the big question we ask in the Metaphysics-Physics Principle?

Answer 40

What is the ultimate reality behind our discoveries in nature?

Question 41

Who makes an upward "metaphysical" jump?

Answer 41

Everyone.

Question 42

What is teleology?

Answer 42

The ultimate belief (metaphysic) that the universe and life have an ultimate plan and ultimate purpose.

Question 43

What is dysteleology?

Answer 43

The ultimate belief (metaphysic) that the universe and life have no ultimate plan and no ultimate purpose.

Question 44

What is the ultimate belief (metaphysic) that the universe and life have an ultimate plan and ultimate purpose?

Answer 44

Teleology.

Question 45

What is the ultimate belief (metaphysic) that the universe and life have no ultimate plan and no ultimate purpose?

Answer 45

Dysteleology.

Question 46

"The complexity of living organisms is matched by the elegant efficiency of the ___ ___." -Richard Dawkins

Answer 46

Apparent design.