PHIL 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: J. P. Moreland, Cosmological Argument, William Lane Craig
9 May 2016
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The use of reason as opposed to revelation critically evaluate religious beliefs. Our focus: critical evaluation of arguments for and against god"s existence. God: an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent creator of the universe (all knowing, all powerful, all good) Creator via creation ex-nihilo (out of nothing) Omnipotence: the power to do all things. Qualification: even an omnipotent being can"t do what is logically contradictory. This is contradictory but not a limitation of omnipotence. Strictly speaking, a contradiction is a meaningless combination of words that describes nothing. Arguments for god"s existence: a priori arguments. Attempts to prove god"s existence primarily of the basis of concepts and principles known a priori: a posteriori arguments. Attempts to prove god"s existence primarily of the basis of concepts and principles known a posteriori: the ontological argument for god"s existence. Reductio ad absurdum (indirect proof: proving a conclusion by assuming it is false and then showing that is leads to a contradiction or absurdity.
