Key Words Arguments for the existence of God

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  1. 2. A thesis put forward that suggests the world could have been created by chance as the universe has existed infinitely with an infinite number of chances for the world to come about as it is.
  2. 4. The study of being or existence
  3. 5. Knowledge gained through logic and reason alone.
  4. 7. A type of reasoning where you start with a true conclusion and seek evidence to support it, the evidence is intended to logically guarantee that the conclusion is true.
  5. 8. An argument for the existence of God that looks at the final purpose of something.
  6. 11. Knowledge gained through experience/the senses.
  7. 13. Paley said that the design of the human eye was ...... and therefore had to have a designer
  8. 14. An argument for the existence of God based on the definition or qualities of who God is.
  9. 15. Leibniz argued that God as explanation for the universe requires no further explanation and is a..... reason.
  10. 16. The philosopher who posed the Teleological Argument
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  1. 1. A word used by Aristotle to mean purpose or end.
  2. 3. Arguments for the existence of God based on a claim about a common feature of the universe
  3. 5. When a comparison is drawn between two things, Paley uses this with a watch and God.
  4. 6. A type of reasoning where make specific statements based on observation and then reach a logically supported conclusion.
  5. 9. Paley's argument is also known as a..... argument
  6. 10. The book written by Saint Anselm which details the ontological argument
  7. 12. the philosopher who used the example of a watch to prove God's existence