Ethics

3. The imperfect world we see around us.
5. the starting point of everything (God).
6. Someone who questions or doubts knowledge.
9. What we learn through sight, sound, touch, etc.
10. Doubting what we know.
14. A story with a hidden meaning (e.g. Plato’s Cave).
15. The view that knowledge comes from experience through the senses.
19. Descartes’ belief that God, being perfect, would not deceive us.
20. theory that species change over time by natural selection (Darwin).
22. Being completely sure.
26. problem of evil: If God is all-loving and all-powerful, why is there evil?

1. an event that cannot be explained by natural laws, seen as an act of God.
2. the belief that all events are decided by God.
4. Love of wisdom; the study of knowledge, reality, and existence.
7. belief that God created the world exactly as Genesis says.
8. Plato’s idea of perfect, eternal truths.
11. belief that God started creation, but life evolved naturally.
12. idea that the world is too ordered and complex to be by chance, so must have a designer (God).
13. Hebrew word meaning “day” (can also mean “a long time”).
16. the belief that God made the world (Genesis).
17. the idea that everything happens because of something else.
18. Aquinas’ First Cause argument: everything has a cause, so there must be a First Cause (God).
21. communicating with God through words or thoughts.
23. The view that knowledge comes from reason and logic.
24. “I think, therefore I am” (Descartes).
25. the belief that humans choose their own actions.