A) It Was Designed and Built by Plan

Apologetics

Quizzes 8 and 9

1. The following 4 questions are related and should be answered in order. You see a very nice home while taking a drive. Which of the following is most likely?

A) It was designed and built by plan.

B) It appeared by chance.

2. You see a beautiful painting of landscape in a museum. Which is more likely?

A) It was created by a monkey.

B) It was created by an artist.

3. Which is more complicated?

A) The universe.

B) A painting or a house.

4. Kreeft refers to the idea that the complexity of our universe argues for a creator God as ______.

A) the First Cause argument.

B) the Argument from Design.

C) the Argument from Conscience.

5. Thomas Aquinas's "First Cause" argument states that there must always be an ultimate explanation for everything. Which of the following does not need an explanation beyond itself?

A) A God who always existed.

B) A big bang theory of the universe that created everything out of a singularity.

C) The life on earth.

6. The following questions refer to Pascal's Wager. Would it make sense to pick a number between 1 and a million for a chance of winning $1 million if it cost you nothing to guess?

A) Yes

B) No

7. Would most people probably pay $100 for a drug that had a 50-50 chance of saving a loved one from certain death?

A) Yes

B) No

8. If there were a one in a trillion chance that God existed would it still make rational sense to "bet" on his existence if the pay off were eternal happiness?

A) Yes, eternal life is greater than the 1 in a trillion chance.

B) No, why would a person bet on eternal happiness when the odds were so low?

9. Pascal acknowledged that believing in God simply because we are afraid of the consequences of not believing is an immature form of faith.

A) True

B) False

QUIZ 9

1. Why do most people choose to believe or not believe in God?

A) Because their families and friends do or do not.

B) By objectively and logically comparing arguments for and against God.

C) By listening to great theology lessons in Catholic School.

2. Which believer in God is likely to have the most grounded, firmest faith?

A) The person who believes because her family and friends do.

B) The person who believes after logically comparing arguments for and against the existence of God and then choosing to believe.

C) The person who believes because arguing with theology teachers is tiring and takes too much time.

3. Why does Kreeft in the reading's Lecture 2 say theists (believers in God) have the burden of proof on God's existence?

A) Kreeft believes theists are smarter.

B) Kreeft thinks ideas, like the belief in God, should be judged guilty (unproven) until proven true.

C) Kreeft believes there are no strong arguments for atheism (the contention there is no God) anyway.

4. Which of the following best describes "The Problem of Evil" as put forth by Kreeft in Lecture 2?

A) If God is absolutely good and has unlimited power, then evil should not exist. Since evil does exist there must be no God.

B) Christians believe that God is all good, but he is not powerful enough to stop evil. We should not bother to worship a God who can't stop evil.

C) Christians believe God is all powerful, but he is capable of doing/allowing both good and evil. We should not worship a God who does evil.

5. In Lecture 3 Kreeft sees the problem of evil as the most important question in the philosophy of religion for all the reasons EXCEPT:

A) The Bible never addresses evil and tries to pretend it doesn't exist.

B) Evil is universal and everyone wonders why bad things happen to good people.

C) Evil is more than just an intellectual problem. It is real and concrete and needs an explanation for it's existence.

D) The fact that evil exists in a world where Christians maintain the existence of an all good, all powerful God is the strongest argument for atheism.

6. In Lecture 3 Kreeft argues that the most and worst suffering comes from moral evil (things humans do to one another like the holocaust, terrorism, holy wars, murder, etc.) In a world where humans have free choice who creates these moral evils?

A) God

B) Humans

7. According to Kreeft's "Argument from Change" in Lecture 4 there is nothing illogical in the statement, "Since we can see the universe changing and moving through time, there must have been something outside of the universe that got it moving."

A) True

B) False

8. According to Kreeft in his Lecture 5, if a person argues for the existence of God based on the fact that across human time and culture most people have in fact believed in God, then he is using the:

A) Argument from religious experience.

B) Argument from desire.

C) Argument from conscience.

D) Argument from common consent.