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Cosmological Argument Quiz

On December 28, 2019January 30, 2020 By Aimee Horsley

What does Cosmological mean?

Study of Purpose

Study of the Universe

Study of Design

Study of God

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What is Aquinas’ first way called?

Contingency

Unmade Maker

Unmoved Mover

Uncaused Causer

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What does contingency mean?

Has to exist

Human existence

Needs something else to exist

God’s existence is needed

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Why is the causer uncaused?

To avoid infinite regression

To avoid scientific theories

To avoid necessity

Because it wanted to be

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Aquinas wrote his ways in which book?

Proslogian

Summa Theologica

Republic

Natural Theology

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Which of Aquinas’ ways are the Cosmological Argument?

The 5th

Only the first and second

The last 3

The first 3

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What does fallacy mean?

Mistaken belief

Argument to prove God’s existence

A criticism

An alternative to infinite regression

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Which theory argues that the universe started from the re-distribution of energy?

Big Bang Theory

Epicurean Hypothesis

Steady State theory

Fallacy of Composition

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What does Russell argue?

Every boy has a mother so the human race has a mother

Every man has a mother is not proof the human race has a mother

Every man has a father so the human race has a father

Every man has a mother so the human race has a mother

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Which fallacy is the example of the 20 particles used for?

Fallacy of Composition

Fallacy of Affirmation

Fallacy of Consequence

Fallacy of Composure

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What type of statements are necessary?

Empirical

Analytical

Ones about God

Synthetic

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What does William Lane Craig say?

There is no such thing as contingency

There is no such thing as a sentient being

The universe has an ending

There is no such thing as infinity

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What is the Fallacy of Affirmation of the Consequent?

We assume there is no relationship between cause and effect

We assume everything has an effect

We assume there is a relationship between cause and effect

We assume there are no consequences

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What does Leibniz say?

God causes cause and effect

There cannot be more in the effect than there is in the cause

Everything is contingent so needs a necessary being to start off the chain

There cannot be more in the cause than there is in the effect

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Who questioned why God is the necessary being and not just “a permanent stock of matter?”

Fredrick Copleston

William Lane Craig

Bertrand Russell

J.L Mackie

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