Philosophists - God

Question 1

Theist

Answer 1

A person who believes in God/Gods

Question 2

Atheist

Answer 2

Someone who doesn’t believe in God

Question 3

Rational

Answer 3

A belief that is rational/ it makes sense

Question 4

Monotheism

Answer 4

The belief in one god

Question 5

Polytheism

Answer 5

The belief in more than one god

Question 6

Miracle

Answer 6

An unexplainable or impossible event that people believe in God

Question 7

Who is Richard Swinburne

Answer 7

He thought miracles were proof of god. He said the amount of miracles and personal experience is proof that something supernatural exists

Question 8

Who was John Mackie?

Answer 8

• He created The Inconsistent Triad

                    Evil exists
                         🔺 God is all loving      God is all powerful

Mackie said you could only have two and it’s clear evil exists so if God was real he would stop all the suffering.

Think: God doesn’t care, isn’t real or can’t do anything

Question 9

Tell me about William Paley

Answer 9

• He created “The Design Argument”

Complex things don’t appear by chance, they have to be designed
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The world is very complex
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The world cannot have happened by chance
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The world must’ve been designed by an intelligent being
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God

• He gave a clock as an example

Question 10

Who was Sigmund Freud?

Answer 10

• He argued that God is an idea passed down to comfort and protect us
• He thought that all humans share three desires:
  1. The desire for a father
  2. The desire for fairness
  3. The desire for immorality

He said God could give us all of these

Question 11

Tell me about Thomas Aquinas

Answer 11

• He invented “Cosmological Argument”:

Everything that exists was caused by something else
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This chain of cause and effect goes back through time
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There must’ve been a beginning - a FIRST CAUSE
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This first cause must be eternal and omnipotent
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God