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Revision quiz: Design arguments for the existence of God (Judeo-Christian): Part 1

Information: This revision quiz is based on the article Design arguments for the existence of God (Judeo-Christian) Part 1: Introduction, the Bible, Aquinas and Paley

1. Design arguments are an aspect of natural theology, but what is this to do with?

  • How knowing God exists is not very hard
  • How we can know God exists from the way the world is
  • How God is like a watch

2. Some design arguments are teleological arguments. In Greek, the word 'telos' means what?

  • Future
  • Theology
  • End/purpose

3. Design arguments give us what type of knowledge?

  • a posteriori
  • a priori

4. Where do we find design arguments in the Bible?

  • Only in the Old Testament
  • Only in the New Testatment
  • In both the Old and New Testaments

5. Thomas Aquinas incorporated which Ancient Greek philsopher's ideas into his theology?

  • Socrates
  • Plato
  • Aristotle

6. Which one of Aquinas' 'Five Ways' is a design/telelogical argument?

  • First
  • Third
  • Fifth

7. How does Aquinas move from describing the orbit of the planets, to saying God exists?

  • The best way for the planets to orbit each other can only be achieved, if God does it
  • The planets cannot have arranged themselves to orbit each order, so God must have done it
  • Only God has the intelligence to arrange and order planets

8. "The philosopher David Hume wrote a critique of William Paley's watch analogy". Is that statement true or false?

  • True
  • False

9. What is a key premise of the watch analogy?

  • The way watches are made is like finding stones in a field
  • God exists because people make watches
  • The way watches work is like how the world works

10. What is it about a watch that causes someone who finds it in a field, to conclude it should not be there?

  • People infer from the watch's complexity and ordered state, that it should not be there
  • It has the name of the person who made it engraved on the back
  • It's hard to break a stone, but it's easy to break a watch