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6. Who argued that arguments based on observation commit a fallacy of composition?

  • Hick
  • Dawkins
  • Russell
  • Hume

7. Who referred to evolution as a "blind watchmaker"?

  • Dawkins
  • Hick
  • Hume
  • Descartes

8. What comparison demonstrates a temporal efficient cause?

  • Bees
  • Dominos
  • Plants
  • Money

9. Which one of Aquinas' Five Ways is the teleological argument based on?

  • Fifth
  • First
  • Second
  • Third

10. What does Paley's analogy demonstrate?

  • That the world has no purpose
  • That the world was created with a purpose by God
  • That the world was created by accident
  • That the world is nothing like what it seems

11. What comparison demonstrates a sustaining efficient cause?

  • Bees
  • Plants
  • Dominos
  • Money

12. What is Aquinas' teleological argument?

  • Things are moving from potentiality to actuality but something must be the first mover
  • Natural bodies are directed towards and end by an intelligent being
  • There must be a necessary being which brought all other beings into existence
  • There must be an uncaused first cause of everything

13. How can we see that God cares for us?

  • Scripture
  • Through Divine Law
  • The care in creation
  • How the world has a purpose

14. Does the Big Bang theory support the view that there is a natural cause for the universe?

  • Yes
  • No

15. Can we work out the cause just by looking at the effect?

  • No
  • Yes

16. What does Aquinas' Third Way argue?

  • Natural bodies are directed towards and end by an intelligent being
  • There must be an uncaused first cause of everything
  • There must be a necessary being which brought all other beings into existence
  • Things are moving from potentiality to actuality and there must be a first mover

17. What did Paley compare the world to?

  • A bee
  • A sea
  • A watch
  • A car

18. What does Aquinas' First Way argue?

  • Natural bodies are directed towards and end by an intelligent being
  • Things are moving from potentiality to actuality and there must be a first mover
  • There must be an uncaused first cause of everything
  • There must be a necessary being which brought all other beings into existence