Is It Rational To Believe In God Flashcards
Was Richard Swinburne arguing for or against belief in God?
He was FOR
Was John Mackie arguing for or against the belief in God?
He was AGAINST
Was William Paley arguing for or against the belief in God?
He was FOR
Was Sigmund Freud for or against the belief in God?
He was AGAINST
Was Thomas Aquinas arguing for or against the belief in God?
He was FOR
What is Swinburne’s main theory?
So many people have claimed to have interacted with God, that not everybody could be lying
What is Mackie’s main theory?
He believes that god cant be all loving and all powerful yet evil still exists. Surely if he was all loving, and had the power to stop evil, that he would.
What was Paley’s main theory?
He believed that things in the world where to intricate and detailed to have been made from humans, there would have to be a supernatural being.
What was Frued’s main theory?
He believes that god is only in the mind, and some people want to believe that a God exists that they start to imagine that they see a God, sometimes a father figure or a saviour
What was Aquinas’ main theory?
He believed that if you keep going back in time, they would have to be a first cause for everything, therefore God was a first cause and existed
