PHIL 201 Quiz 7 Liberty University

Set 1

1. If successful, as a result of the Cosmological Argument, we learn there is a
2. Which argument for God is Anselm of Canterbury most-known for?
3. According to David Hume, God is best defined as “the greatest conceivable being.”
4. David Hume thought the teleological argument was successful in showing that the Christian God exists.
5. According to sociologists, we now live in:
6. The “multiverse hypothesis” is a prominent objection to the moral argument.
7. According to William Lane Craig, the expansion of the universe provides evidence for the eternality of the universe.
8. The scientist Lawrence Krause has recently shown how a universe can in fact come into being out of literally nothing.
9. The low entropy state of the initial universe is an example of fine-tuning.
10. If successful, the Kalam Cosmological Argument rules out:
11. Alvin Plantinga has developed a modalized version of the ontological argument that he thinks is at least as good as any argument in philosophy.
12. Many people today think that Darwinism best explains the apparent design found in nature.
13. According to the philosopher Stephen Evans, the evidence for God is:
14. There is nothing God can’t do.
15. The evidential problem of evil attempts to show which of the following?
16. Which version of freedom does Plantinga’s Free-Will Defense utlize?
17. As a response to the evidential problem of evil, if one argues “here is God’s reason for permitting evil,” they are providing:
18. Sometimes “noseeum” inference are good inference, sometimes they are not.
19. According to the evidential problem of evil, probably, pointless evil exists.
20. Which of the following are reasons God might hide, even from believers for a time?
21. The emotional problem of evil concerns how to comfort those who think belief in God is incoherent.
22. It is logically possible for God to cause humans to freely act in certain ways.
23. Given the doctrine of original goodness, it is plausible to think that there is no reasonable nonbelief.
24. In response to the logical problem of evil, Alvin Plantinga famously has developed:
25. The problem of divine hiding is only a problem for nonbelievers.

Set 2

1. Which of the following is an attempt to resolve the problem of evil that, while perhaps logically adequate, is not a genuine option for the orthodox theist?
2. Marilyn Adams’s solution to the problem of evil requires universalism.
3. The most severe version of the problem of horrendous evil is
4. What are challenges of a free-will theodicy?
5. Which of the following is a weakness with soul-making theodicies?
6. The Bible tells us everything we need to know and can benefit from ethically.
7. Which of the following is NOT a way that ethics can contribute to Biblical morality?
8. Empirical sciences focus increasingly on the __________ of particular problems while ethics focuses on what people _________ to do.
9. According to Holmes, the study of philosophical ethics can enhance Biblical morality by:
10. Which of the following is a way Scripture does NOT contribute to philosophical ethics?
11. When I ask “Why is this the right thing to do?” I am seeking the behind my action:
12. According to Dr. Martin, Augustine defined evil as:
13. In the end, Dr. Martin appealed to what factor in answering the question of gratuitous evil:
14. The pointecast presentation on why be moral would support the idea that each individual should be free to formulate his/her own ethical norms.
15. Deontological ethics says we should be moral because:
16. Which of the following is an implication from the idea that the ethicist’s emphasis on moral truth is misguided and moral practices are just emotional assertions?
17. What view holds that moral language simply expresses and perhaps arouses emotion so that nothing we say in moral terms is either true or false about anything:
18. The emotivist says an ethical judgment describes feelings, while the subjectivist says it vents feelings.
19. Which of the following is NOT a statement that the ethical emotivist would say is empirically true?
20. Ethical intuitions really express objective feelings rather than evidencing subjective views of moral properties or ethical truths.

Set 3

1. What are challenges of a free‐will theodicy?
2. Goods like courage and sympathy
3. So‐called “horrendous evils” are
4. The apparent fact that God’s existence is not clearly manifested is a mystery for which believers have no explanation.
5. The problem of evil comes about when we try to reconcile
6. The Bible contributes to philosophical ethics because it demonstrates that from love for God and gratitude for his mercies come the motivation and dynamic for moral living.
7. All religions are concerned with the promulgation of certain values and the cultivation of specific virtues except Christianity.
8. Which of the following is a way Scripture does NOT contribute to philosophical ethics?
9. Christian liberty is not the license to do as one wants, but is rather being liberated to live within what God’s law requires.
10. Where in the Bible can one find ethical material?
11. Which element is not part of every moral event:
12. Natural Law theory comes under the category of
13. When I ask “Why am I doing this?” I am seeking the ___________ behind my action:
14. According to Dr. Martin, what is gratuitous evil?
15. Which element is NOT an element of the moral point of view:
16. Ethics is a normative discipline concerned with explaining existing moral practices‐ ‐how physical needs and social context have contributed to our understanding of moral objectivism.
17. What view holds that moral language simply expresses and perhaps arouses emotion so that nothing we say in moral terms is either true or false about anything:
18. Cultural relativism is the view that moral beliefs and practices vary with and depend on human needs and social conditions.
19. According to emotivism, moral language is basically ___________, because it is not empirical or analytic.
20. The emotivist says an ethical judgment describes feelings, while the subjectivist says it vents feelings.
21. The apparent fact that God’s existence is not clearly manifested is a mystery for which believers have no explanation.
22. According to Plantinga, God is able to bring about every possible world.
23. The idea that all free beings God could actually create would misuse their freedom at some time is called “transworld depravity.”
24. The argument that there is probably pointless suffering that renders God’s existence unlikely is called
25. The problem of evil comes about when we try to reconcile
26. Which of the following is NOT a way that ethics can contribute to Biblical morality?
27. The Bible tells us everything we need to know and can benefit from ethically.
28. Love alone does not tell a person what he or she ought to want and do in every situation; it still needs _____________ in righteousness of the sort the Bible gives.
29. The Bible contributes to philosophical ethics because it demonstrates that from love for God and gratitude for his mercies come the motivation and dynamic for moral living.
30. Which of the following is NOT a way the Bible contributes to philosophical ethics?
31. According to Dr. Martin, what is gratuitous evil?
32. According to Dr. Martin, why is evil a problem for theists?
33. The Synderesis rule states:
34. The pointecast presentation on why be moral would support the idea that each individual should be free to formulate his/her own ethical norms.
35. When I ask “Why am I doing this?” I am seeking the ___________ behind my action:
36. Cultural relativism is the view that moral beliefs and practices vary with and depend on human needs and social conditions.
37. Logical positivism insists that which kinds of cognitive language are NOT possible:
38. The emotivist says an ethical judgment describes feelings, while the subjectivist says it vents feelings.
39. According to Holmes, one problem with the diversity thesis is that:
40. Which of the following is NOT a statement that the ethical emotivist would say is empirically true?
41. Deadly earthquakes, hurricanes, and diseases are examples of natural evils.
42. The view advanced by C. S. Lewis in The Great Divorce is
43. The problem of evil comes about when we try to reconcile
44. The apparent fact that God’s existence is not clearly manifested is a mystery for which believers have no explanation.
45. So‐called “horrendous evils” are
46. The main difference between ethics and many other disciplines is that ethics is subjective while many other disciplines are objective.
47. All religions are concerned with the promulgation of certain values and the cultivation of specific virtues except Christianity.
48. Which of the following is NOT a significant development from the 1960’s moral revolution?
49. The Bible tells us everything we need to know and can benefit from ethically.
50. Ethics is similar to anthropology and sociology because they focus on human behaviors and the consequences of human action.
51. When I ask “Why is this the right thing to do?” I am seeking the ___________ behind my action:
52. The one below that Dr. Martin did NOT appeal to as a proposed solution to the problem of evil
53. For virtues ethics the “good” is located in the:
54. According to Dr. Martin, Augustine defined evil as:
55. According to Dr. Martin, what is gratuitous evil?
56. What is really at stake in the dependency thesis is the question of __________ and
57. According to emotivism, moral language is basically ___________, because it is not empirical or analytic.
58. What term describes the idea that morality varies from culture to culture so that there are no universal norms?
59. What is one problem with the charge of ethnocentrism aimed by relativists and the idea of universal moral beliefs?
60. Which of the following is NOT a statement that the ethical emotivist would say is empirically true?