Pascal and Problem of Evil Quiz - Philosophy 110

According to arguments from religious pluralism

you have no more reason to perfer your god over those other gods it is inconsistent to believe that the thousands of other gods are fake and yours alone is real when you have no reason for the preference if you had been raised in a different culture, you would believe in different gods than what you currently believe in ANSWER - all of these

An objection to the Design Argument is

Answer: ALL OF THESE God is supposed to be the source of all order, but then nothing explains the orderliness and complexity of God That we have no reason to believe that the designer is omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent There might be more than one designer

The stock market prediction scam

is an example of an unintelligent process that gives rise to order

Another objection to Pascals Wager is that the argument

Fails to single out any particular deity as the one deserving of your bet

One reason to suppose that even moral evils are really God's fault is

God irresponsibly created and set loose violent people, knowing the damage they would probably cause

The idea that suffering is part of God's greater plan is often taken to refute the logical problems of evil, by showing that

God might have some good reasons as to why suffering is necessary and instrumental to our greater happiness

According to Pascal

If God exists and you wager that he does, then you win big

Pascal argued that

It is in your rational self-interest to believe that God exists

According to Paley

Nothing explains the complexity of the universe except intelligent design

An objection to Pascals wager is that

Pascal assumes loads of Christian theology without arguing for it

Pascal claimed that

The odds for God's existence are 50/50

A defender of the problem of evil argument can concede that moral evils are the result of people freely choosing to act immorally but still ask

Why didn't God intervene to prevent the Holocaust anyway?

Paley argues that if you found a watch in the woods

You could tell that the watch, unlike the rocks was designed and made

The free will defense against the problem of evil maintains that

all of the suffering in the world is our fault because we freely choose to sin

The distinction between moral and natural evils is designed to show that

even if human free will is to blame for moral evils, God is still to blame for natural evils

Pascal recognizes that it is difficult to voluntarily start believing in something merely because it is in your self-interest. So he recommends that you

fake it until you make it

Atheists

judge that there is no God

According to the problem of evil

the existence of an omnipotent, omnibenevolent God is incompativle with all of the suffering in the world

In Paley's presentation of the Argument from Design, he argued that the universe is analogous to a

watch

Agnostics

withhold judgment about the existence of God