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A) There is no reason to believe more evidence would increase belief in God. B) Evidence for God is already too abundant to be ignored. C) God does not want to be found by humans. D) The hiddenness of God is a necessary condition for free will.
A) He claims it helps refine the concept of God. B) He claims that theology should never be subject to logic. C) He dismisses it as being purely based on atheistic bias. D) He argues that scripture is irrelevant to logical coherence.
A) The historical and the contemporary problems. B) The logical and the illogical problems. C) The scientific and the philosophical problems. D) The intellectual and the emotional problems.
A) That suffering does not exist in the real world. B) That the existence of God and suffering are logically incompatible. C) That humans are incapable of understanding evil. D) That God is responsible for all evil in the world.
A) The claim that God lacks the power to stop evil. B) The claim that evil is merely an illusion of the mind. C) The claim that all suffering is deserved by humans. D) The claim that apparently gratuitous suffering is evidence against God.
A) All suffering is known to have a clear divine purpose. B) Gratuitous suffering is a scientific impossibility. C) God is always testing human faith through suffering. D) Humans cannot estimate which actions lead to the ultimate greatest happiness.
A) It suggests that our universe is the only one that matters. B) It fails to account for the existence of morally sentient creatures. C) It is based on flawed mathematical principles. D) It explains too much and still requires further explanation.
A) Infinite universes would contradict the laws of physics. B) Infinite universes would make the existence of gems impossible. C) Infinite universes would make observations unpredictable. D) Infinite universes would lead to a lack of moral freedom.
A) Proactive and reactive. B) Scientific and theological. C) Global and local. D) Universal and regional.
A) Denying the existence of a particular concept of God. B) Denying the existence of religious institutions. C) Denying the existence of any god whatsoever. D) Denying the existence of God in a specific geographic location.
A) The failure of atheistic arguments to provide moral guidance. B) Widespread beliefs in god configurations and religious experiences. C) The lack of scientific evidence for the non-existence of God. D) The historical necessity of religion in human society.
A) The emotional comfort provided by religious belief. B) The capacity to rationalize prudence and Pascal's Wager. C) The scientific proof of a creator. D) The historical reliability of religious texts.
A) The lack of evidence for evolutionary biology. B) The fear of death among atheists. C) Our normative propensities to commit to morality. D) The existence of universal laws of nature.
A) It requires moral and spiritual development. B) It is a process that has no relation to morality. C) It is impossible for humans to achieve. D) It is an instantaneous realization for all people.
A) 2007 B) 1990 C) 2010 D) 1976
A) Logical positivism B) Humpty-Dumptyism C) Theological deconstruction D) Empirical revisionism
A) William Lane Craig B) William Crawley C) Antony Flew D) An unnamed BBC editor
A) The scientific proof of creation B) The sociological study of church attendance C) The argument for divine command theory D) The logical argument from evil
A) Voltaire B) Edmund Burke C) Pope Pius XI D) C. S. Lewis
A) Scientific enlightenment. B) Personal liberty. C) Social chaos. D) Totalitarianism.
A) Undermining Christian civilization. B) Promoting absolute scientific freedom. C) Establishing democratic governance. D) Fostering individual liberty.
A) The Reformation. B) The Renaissance. C) The Industrial Revolution. D) The French Revolution.
A) Humanae Vitae B) Divini Redemptoris C) Laudato Si D) Rerum Novarum
A) Anthony Kenny B) William Lane Craig C) Kai Nielsen D) Alvin Plantinga
A) Scientific consensus B) Divine revelation C) Refutation D) Substantiation
A) The existence of atoms B) Other minds C) The reality of time D) Historical events
A) Alvin Plantinga B) Kai Nielsen C) Anthony Kenny D) Ralph McInerny
A) The theist B) The atheist C) The scientist D) The agnostic
A) There is no correlation between atheism and societal health. B) Higher atheist populations are the direct cause of societal health. C) Atheism is proven to be the primary driver of societal health. D) Correlation does not necessarily indicate causation.
A) Increased involvement in theistic communities. B) Higher fertility rates. C) Lower fertility rates. D) Higher rates of social obligation.
A) They were never involved in academic or scientific fields. B) Supporting scientific racism. C) They were the primary leaders of anti-racist movements. D) They had no historical influence on societal views of race.
A) Mostly represented by religious minorities. B) Highly diverse with a majority of women. C) Dominated by white men with few minorities or women. D) Evenly distributed among all gender and ethnic groups.
A) Fyodor Dostoyevsky. B) George Orwell. C) Leo Tolstoy. D) Franz Kafka.
A) Soviet Union B) Albania C) Cambodia D) China
A) Mendelian genetics B) Lysenkoism C) Capitalist materialism D) Darwinian evolution
A) Pol Pot B) Mao Zedong C) Joseph Stalin D) Enver Hoxha
A) Darwin was a harsh critic of Christian theology B) Darwin published an atheist manifesto C) Darwin never called himself an atheist D) Darwin's work was ignored by Christian scientists |