INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
GOD’S EXISTENCE AND GOD’S NATURE
STUDY GUIDE AND VOCABULARY LIST
To aid you in your reading and comprehension
1. What is the paradox of omnipotence?
2. Explain how an argument for God’s existence can be deductively invalid and at the same
time inductively strong.
3. Why is belief in God thought to be a properly basic belief?
4. What are the categories of arguments for the belief in God?
5. What is the notion of irreducible complexity, as it relates to belief in God’s existence?
6. “It is no diminution of God’s omnipotence to say He cannot do what is not logically possible
to do.” Discuss this statement, and state whether you agree or disagree.
7. Choose one of the Five Ways and evaluate it.
8. “God can’t know the future, because the future hasn’t yet occurred.” Evaluate this statement.
9. If God is first a person, and then a proposition, what difference does this make in establishing
that belief in God is rational?
10. If God can’t sin, then how can we say that He can do all things?
Gene selectionism
Reductionism
Survival machines
Matter-information duality
Prepared by Christopher Ullman, Instructor
Christian Life College
2/12/2016
INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
DNA – Life identity problem
Irrelevance of storage medium
Stuff: The Book
Natural selection’s limits
Berra’s Blunder
Black Box
Irreducible Complexity
Climbing Mt. Improbable
Evolution: Fact or Philosophy?
Matter – Reality identity problem
Cosmological Arguments
Prudential Argument
Ontological Argument
Moral Arguments
Experiential Arguments
Deductive Necessity and Inductive Sufficiency
Prepared by Christopher Ullman, Instructor
Christian Life College
2/12/2016