RELIGIOUS STUDIES: EXISTENCE OF GOD KEY WORDS

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St. Thomas Aquinas
Developed the Cosmological argument
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Conscience
The inner feeling that you are doing right or wrong
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Cosmological
Referring to the origin and structure of the universe
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Cosmological (First Cause) argument
A proof for the existence of God based on the idea that there had to be an uncaused cause that made everything else happen
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Creator
A quality of God; God is the creater of Earth and life
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Teleological (Design) argument
The argument that God designed the universe because everything is so intricately made in its detail that it could not have happened by chance
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Sigmund Freud
He argued that what we learn from our parents and society at an early age (too early for us to remember) about what is right and wrong creates our conscious. This is also called conditioning
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God as the First Cause
The belief that God created the universe. Everything has a cause, so God must be the cause of the universe
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David Hume
Philosopher and historian who thought that observation and experience should be the foundation of human knowledge (expericism)
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Miracle
A seemingly impossible occurence, usually good
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Monotheism
The belief that there is only one God
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Moral arguement
The argument that God exists because people have a sense of duty, a sense of right and wrong which God gave us
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Isaac Newton
Claimed that the thumb alone was proof of God because only primates can grasp
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William Paley
Develloped the Teleological argument
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Religious experience
An experience that is outside the normal experience, usually involving the supernatural
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Religious experience argument
The argument for God's existence based on personal experience of God through revelation, miracle, conversion, worship, ect.
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Revelation
God shows himself to believers. This is the only way anybody can really know anything about God
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Agnostic
Someone who does not know whether or not they believe in God
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Atheist
Someone who does not believe in God
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Polytheist
The belief in more than one god
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Theist
Someone who believes in God
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The Big Bang theory
A scientific spontaneous event which caused the universe to come in to existence
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Monotheist
The belief that there is only one God
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Anthropic principle
The theory that the Earth was made in the exact right conditions for life
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Evolution
A scientific theory about the origin of species
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A proof for the existence of God based on the idea that there had to be an uncaused cause that made everything else happen

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A quality of God; God is the creater of Earth and life

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