Terms

Question 1

Naturalism

Answer 1

The belief that nothing exists beyond the laws of nature

Question 2

Nihilism

Answer 2

The belief that reality doesn’t exist or that there are any morals besides what we create as people

Question 3

Transcendentalism

Answer 3

Belief in inherent goodness in people and nature. Religion and politics corrupted the purity of the individual.

Question 4

Theism

Answer 4

Belief in a personal, present and active God that created the world and universe.

Question 5

Ethnocentrism

Answer 5

Judging another culture by one’s own culture

Question 6

Cosmological argument

Answer 6

Belief in a first cause or an uncaused cause to the universe and is used for the argument of the existence of God

Question 7

The First Law of Thermodynamics

Answer 7

The energy of an isolated system is constant

Question 8

The Second Law of Thermodynamics

Answer 8

The system is always approaching maximum entropy or thermodynamic equilibrium

Question 9

The Teleological Argument

Answer 9

purpose and design in nature

Question 10

Telos

Answer 10

purpose, basis for teleology

Question 11

The Watchmaker Analogy

Answer 11

design implies a designer

Question 12

The Anthropological Argument

Answer 12

Man has morals and yearning for God

Question 13

Universalism

Answer 13

All will be saved by God’s grace

Question 14

Wider Hope

Answer 14

God will save the good people that never knew God’s word because they were still good

Question 15

New Wider Hope

Answer 15

All will be given a chance for revelation