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| T OR F: Philosophy is “the love of wisdom.” |
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| T OR F: Thales believed that change is an illusion. |
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T OR F: To engage in Apologetics is to regretfully acknowledge a faulty doctrine
in the Christian belief system. |
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| T OR F:The field of Metaphysics explores the nature of reality. |
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T OR F: According to I Peter 3:15-16, we are to defend the Christian faith with
“gentleness” and “respect.” |
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| T OR F: Epistemology is the study of the origin of words. |
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The main branches of Philosophy are:
a. biology, physics, and astronomy
b. epistemology, metaphysics, and axiology
c. evidentialism, presuppositionalism, and verificationism
d. environmentalism, microeconomics, and psychology |
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The purpose of philosophical argument is to:
a. embarrass the opposition
b. win a debate
c. arrive at the truth
d. demonstrate intellectual superiority |
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For a worldview to be viable, it must be:
a. valid, infallible and beyond dispute
b. sound, hypothetical and externally verifiable
c. comprehensive, coherent, and livable
d. inductive, ideal, and scientific |
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According to Francis Schaeffer, the subject matter of world view construction can be divided
into the following categories:
a. inductive & deductive arguments
b. propositional knowledge & intuitive insight
c. faith & reason
d. the universe and its form & the mannishness of man |
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| T OR F: The Pre-Socratic Philosophers attempted to solve the Problem of the One and the Many. |
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| T OR F: Denying the Antecedent is a valid argument form . |
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| T OR F: Modus Ponens is a formal fallacy. |
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| T OR F: As a Panthiest, Pythagoras affirmed reincarnation. |
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| T OR F: A sound deductive argument will be valid and contain true premises. |
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| Using the same word in different ways in the same argument |
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A word, phrase or grammatical construction that can be interpreted
in more than one way |
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| Disqualifying an argument on the basis of its origin |
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| Assuming what you are trying to prove |
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| Presuming that there are fewer alternatives than there actually are |
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| T OR F: Heraclitus tutored Alexander the Great. |
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| T OR F: Aristotle rejected Plato’s Theory of Forms |
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| T OR F: Socrates opposed the Sophists, who exploited philosophy for financial gain. |
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| T OR F: According to Plato, sense experience is the pathway to ultimate reality. |
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| T OR F: David Hume believed that miracles are common occurrences in our world. |
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| T OR F: Source skeptics believe that evidence is unnecessary for beliefs concerning the past. |
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T OR F: Memory and sense experience are the two primary belief-producing mechanisms
concerning the past. |
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T OR F: The Skeptics attempted to demonstrate that some of our most certain beliefs may not be
properly justified. |
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| T OR F: Rene Descartes was famous for the phrase, “I think, therefore I am.” |
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T OR F: John Locke believed that the most reliable way to acquire knowledge is through raw
rational reflection instead of sense experience. |
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T OR F: Assuming the reliability of memory in our attempt to prove the reliability of memory is
the informal fallacy of amphiboly. |
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| T OR F: The Dream Hypothesis is easily refuted by simply describing one’s surroundings. |
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T OR F: Bertrand Russell developed the five-minute hypothesis as a form of Radical
Skepticism concerning our past beliefs. |
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T OR F: Rationalists believe that most human beings are born with innate cognitive
concepts and categories. |
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T OR F: The Principle of Belief Conservation (PBC) can also be stated as the Principle of
“Least Damage.” |
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T OR F: Proponents of PBCclaim that rationality rests on foundational beliefs that aren’t
supported by evidence or proof. |
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| Calm, controlled resignation |
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| T OR F: The big three monotheistic religions are Judaism, Islam and Hinduism |
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| T OR F: The doctrine of the Trinity offers an answer to the Problem of the One and the Many. |
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T OR F: According to Christian Theism, the world operates as an open system of uniform cause
and effect. |
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| T OR F: Naturalism claims that God created the world, but only occasionally interacts with it. |
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| T OR F: Naturalism struggles to explain the phenomena of human personality. |
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T OR F: In the deistic vision of reality, humans are arguably more “personal” than God since
God has no desire to interact with his creation. |
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T OR F: Moralistic Therapeutic Deism claims that God is completely locked outside theclosed
system of uniform cause and effect and is incapable of interacting with creation. |
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| T OR F: The mantra for the existentialist is “existence precedes essence.” |
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| T OR F: Nihilism is a philosophy of irrational hope. |
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| T OR F: According to the Nihilist, matter is an illusion. |
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| T OR F: Pantheism and Naturalism affirm different forms of impersonal monism |
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T OR F: B.F. Skinner believed that human freedom is an illusion since our environment
determines our choices. |
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| T OR F: Dualists claim that humans don’t really have “minds,” only physical brains. |
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T OR F: Charles Darwin was influenced by geologist Charles Lyell, who claimed the earth is in
the process of change instead of the result of a once-for-all act of divine creation. |
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| T OR F: Darwin maintained his devout commitment to Christianity throughout his entire life. |
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The worldview of Deism
a. affirms on-going divine-human interaction
b. was the official perspective of the Christian apostles
c. proposes a God that set the world in motion but does not interact with creation
d. provides a plausible grounding for the full range of human personality |
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Naturalism serves as the basis for
a. creationism
b. nihilism and existentialism
c. platonic thought
d. theism |
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Eastern Pantheism teaches
a. history is linear
b. God is personal
c. individuality and diversity are the ultimate goals for humanity
d. God is the world and the world is God |
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Existentialism claims that
a. humans can create meaning for themselves
b. history is cyclical
c. the universe is an illusion
d. societial laws should be based on the Ten Commandments |
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Which of the following is not a trait of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism?
a. God created the world
b. God wants people to be happy and to develop a positive self-image
c. God carefully manages the details of every person’s life
d. Good people go to heaven |
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T OR F: Atheist Richard Dawkins believes that Science and Religion are both trying to
explain existence, but Religion gets the wrong answer. |
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| T OR F: Intelligent Design is a synonym for Creationism |
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T OR F: According to this film, 50,000 people were systematically sterilized in the United States
during the early part of the 20th century because they were deemed unfit to breed. |
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T OR F: Darwinian apologist Will Provine of Cornell University says that free will emerged over a
long period of time and is now the chief characteristic that separates humans from the
rest of the animal kingdom . |
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T OR F: Scientist David Berlinski says that Darwinism was not a sufficient condition for
Nazism, but it was a necessary condition. |
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T OR F: Richard Weikart, the author of From Darwin to Hitler, says that Hitler might have
thought he was helping the evolutionary progress of the human race by exterminating
the biologically inferior from the collective gene pool. |
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T OR F: This film suggests that when it comes to exploring alternatives to evolution, there is
more scientific freedom in Poland than in the United States. |
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T OR F: Pantheism is the worldview that best represents the position of the current Western
scientific establishment . |
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T OR F: The Intelligent Design advocates interviewed for this film claim that all aspects
of evolution are logically incompatible with the theory of intelligent causation. |
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T OR F: According to Intelligent Design proponents, science is discovering, through advancements
in nanotechnology, that there is information in the cell that cannot be explained
by the undirected material causes of naturalistic evolution . |
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T OR F: Theistic evolution suggests that evolutionary mechanisms can be traced back to a
divine creator. |
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This film uses the Berlin Wall as a metaphor to symbolize.
A. how the scientific elite will only accept theories on one side of the “wall,” namely hypotheses
that are grounded in the naturalistic worldview of undirected material causation.
B. how theories created by East German scientists are systematically suppressed or at the very least
ignored by western scientists.
C. the dualism that exists between the human mind and the human body.
D. the great divide that exists between fundamentalists who embrace Creationism on the one
side and liberal Christians who embrace evolution on the other. |
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Which of the following claims can not be attributed to Richard Dawkins?
A. Those who reject evolution are either insane, stupid or ignorant.
B. Life on earth might have been seeded by a higher intelligence.
C. God is about as unlikely as fairies, angels and hobgoblins.
D. While Science answers most of life’s questions, Religion is still needed to fill in the gaps. |
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The phrase “beware of the sound of one hand clapping” means:
A. It is better to let other people give us credit than to take credit ourselves.
B. If there is an argument on one side, there is bound to be an argument on the other.
C. Fame is fleeting, so we shouldn’t seek applause.
D. The person who offers compliments probably has an ulterior motive. |
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Alister McGrath, the author of The Dawkins Delusion, claims that:
A. Dawkins is the most hated man in Great Britain.
B. Dawkins seems to think that scientific description is an anti-religious argument .
C. Dawkins, despite his atheism, attends Catholic Mass each week.
D. Dawkins believes a creator God now seems likely in light of the evidence. |
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This approach starts with the Bible and seeks to harmonize
the scientific data with Scripture. |
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| The self-direction of human evolution . |
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| Patterns in nature are best explained by intelligent causation |
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All life on earth can be traced to a common ancestor and
developed through undirected material mechanisms. |
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T OR F: Everyday concepts like regret and deliberation support our intuitive belief that
human freedom is an illusion. |
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| T OR F: Calvinism teaches that God knows the future because He planned it. |
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| T OR F: Libertarians believe that a choice can be free and determined at the same time. |
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T OR F: Immanuel Kant’s adage, “ought implies can,” means that if we are morally obligated to
act a certain way then we must possess the freedom to make the right choice. |
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| T OR F: Arminianism teaches that predestination and foreknowledge are the same thing. |
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T OR F: Advocates of libertarian freedom claim that moral responsibility requires the ability to
choose between two or more live options. |
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| T OR F: Arminianism teaches that God’s predestining plan is conditional. |
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T OR F: The law of universal causality states that every event has a cause and thereby
stands in a causal chain with a long history. |
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| T OR F: Determinism is inconsistent with our natural understanding of moral responsibility. |
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T OR F: Hard determinists believe that children are born with free will, but society
corrupts their ability to exercise it. |
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T OR F: Determinism appears to undercut rationality in the following way: those who believe
in Determinism can’t resist believing it and those who reject Determinism can’t resist
rejecting it. |
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| T OR F: The Time Machine illustration demonstrates that foreknowledge determines human choice. |
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T OR F: Soft Determinists claim that a free action is one in which the person’s inner states
are consistent with the executed choice even though that choice is determined |
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T OR F: Philosopher Antony Flew, who coined the term “Compatibilism,” now rejects
Soft Determinism. |
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T OR F: Quantum physicist and theologian John Polkinghorne believes that the world
is a combination of “clocks” and “clouds.” |
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Hard determinism and Libertarian Freedom have the following in common:
a. both claim that a free choice requires a democratic society.
b. humans can occasionally transcend the causal nexus and make non-determined choices.
c. both claim that free will and total determinism are incompatible.
d. human freedom is an illusion. |
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Arminianism teaches that
a. God unilaterally determines everything that comes to pass.
b. God created the world, but does not interact with it.
c. the world is a closed system of uniform cause and effect.
d. God considered future free human choices when He crafted His providential plan. |
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Evidence that supports the claims of Hard Determinism:
a. Our intuitive sense of freedom
b. The theological claim that divine predestination and human freedom are compatible
c. Past scientific success and our ability to sometimes predict human behavior
d. The assumption of the U.S. legal system concerning human responsibility |
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The Westminster Confession states that “God from all eternity...ordains whatsoever comes to
pass, but the liberty or contingency of second causes is not taken away.” This is an expression of:
a. Hard Determinism
b. Libertarian Freedom
c. Libertarian Determinism
d. Soft Determinism |
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The human intuition of free will is not reinforced by:
a. our sense of morality
b. the opinions of behavioristic scentists like B.F. Skinner
c. our experience of regret and remorse
d. the activity of deliberation and planning |
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