| Term | Definition |
|---|
| What is Religious Truth? | reserved for sundays and days of worship. |
| What is Secular Truth? | applies to the rest of time. |
| What distinction does biologist Stephen Jay Gould make between Secular and Religious society? | that secular society relies on reason and decides matters of fact, while religious people rely on faith decide questions about values. |
| What is Being In the World? | Being in the World is to be fully engaged. |
| What is Being OF The World? | Being Of The World is sharing its distorted priorities? |
| What good point about truth does D'Souza say that contemporary atheists are making today? | Either the Universe is a completely closed system and miracles are impossible, or the universe is not a completely closed and there is the possibility of divine intervention in it. |
| Who is Richard Dawkins? | Is a British Theologist, Evolutionary Biologist, and Popular Science, Has written the "Selfish Gene", and "The Extended Phenotype". |
| Who is Sam Harris? | is an American Non-Fiction writer and Prophnenotype, and Scientific Skepticism, author of "The End of Faith" and "The Letters to A Christian Nation". |
| Who is Christopher Hitchens? | is an author, journalist, and literary critic, lives in Washington D.C.,He is anti-theistic |
| What is the fist main point that D'souza tries to make in his book. | Christianity is the biggest Religeon in the west. |
| What is the second main point D'Souza tries to make in his book? | Science Supports Christianity's belief of a divine being. |
| What is the third main point D'Souza tries to make in his book? | Darwin's Theory strengthens Christianity. |
| What is the fourth main point D'souza tries to make in his book? | Science makes miracles impossible. |
| What is the fifth main point D'souza tries to make in his book? | It is Good to have faith. |
| What is the sixth main point D'souza tries to make in his book ? | Atheism is responsible for mass murders. |
| What is the seventh main point D'souza tries to make in his book ? | Atheism is motivated by a cowardly moral escapism. |
| What is the second law of thermodynamics? | That everything to our left breaks apart. |
| What does the reality of an expanding Universe suggests? | That at one time the universe was together. It must have had a beginning. |
| What did Albert Einstein say was the biggest mistake of his life? | His Errors in his Cosmological Constant. |
| What is Hubble's Law? | That the farther away a galaxy is from us, the faster it is receding from us. |
| What is a SIngularity? | Which is an original point at which neither space nor time nor scientific laws are in effect. |
| What does the Latin term ex nihilo, nihil mean? | "Out of nothing, there is nothing." |
| Among the Scriptures of various world religeorns and among the documents of ancient history, the Bible is unique in suggesting an absolute beginning for the universe. True or False | True |
| D'souza suggests that the Genesis account of Creation, especially the creation of light before the sun, moon, and stars, dovetails or fits well with the "big bang" theory of the universe's origin. True or False | True |
| Define the term Metaphysics? | What is after or beyond physics. |
| Copernicus himself believed that his heliocentric universe discoveries implied that man occupies no special place in the universe. True or False | False |
| What is the "Principle of Mediocrity"? | This says that we human beings are nothing special. We in habit a tiny planet. |
| The Bible claims that the earth is at the center of the universe. True or False | False |
| A care belief in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is thaT MAN has a PRIVelIGED status in God's creation. True oe false | True |
| What is the "anthropic principle"? | The Universe we perceive must be of precisely such a nature as will make possible living beings who can perceive it. |
| According to the most recent scientific discoveries , it would be safe to say that the universe is fine-tuned for human-habitation. True or False | True |
| Name the famous philosopher and atheist who has recently moved from atheism to theism based on his commitment "to go where the evidence leads."? | Antony Flew |
| Explain the principle of logic referred to as "Occam's razor." | It means that when there are a variety of possible explanations, go with that requires the fewest assumpting. In other words don't zig-zag to get from point A to point B. |
| The various theories of multiple universes are supported by Occam's razor. True or False | False |
| Astronomer Robert Jastrow says that the reason the "big bang" troubles scientists is because,.................................................................................................................................................... | if true it would simply that there was a "moment of creation" in which everything -- the universe and its laws-- came into existence. |
| According to the discoveries of modern Science, not only did the the universe have a beginning _____ space and time but the origin of the universe was a beginning ______ space and time. | in space and time. for space and time. |
| What is the "huge assumption" which some atheists (and others) make? | These men simply presume their rational scientific approaches them full access to external reality. |
| What term do atheistic scientists Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins use to refer to themselves and those like them. What does this Mean.? | They refer to themselves as brights. This means that they think are smarter than the rest of the community. |
| Kant takes our most fundamental _______ and turns them into ____________________. | assumptions and turns them into questions. |
| Describe what D'souza terms "the Enlightenment fallacy." What is it? | Holds that human reason and science can in principle, gain access to and eventually comprehend the whole reality. |
| What is a Noumenon? | things in themselves. |
| What is a phenomenon? | our experience of those things. |
| How does a tape recorder illustrate the limits of (human) perception? | It can hear but can't taste or smell. |
| Kant believed that science should be understood as applying to both the phenomenal and noumenal worlds. True or False? | False |
| Explain the Latin phrase argumentum ad ignorantium. | the argument that relies on the ignorance of the audience |
| How does D'souza define faith? | "the substance of things shaped for, the evidence of things not seen," |
| What famous dictum is (affirmation) regarding faith in Augustine noted for? | "Believe and you will understand." |
| Social critic Michael Novak says that "using ______ is a little like using the _________ whereas 'putting on _____" if like putting on _________________________ to capture the otherwise invisible dimensions of reality." | "using reason is a little like using the naked eye whereas 'putting on faith' if like putting on perfectly calibrated glasses to capture the otherwise invisible dimensions of reality |
| Who invented what has come to be known as "Pascal's wager"? | It was offered by Muslim theologian Abu Hamed al-Ghazali and probably derived from him |
| What does D'souza mean by the term "apatheism"? | The pretense that something doesn't matter when it is quite literally a matter of life and death |
| What possible reason or explanation does Pascal give for the hiddenness of God? | God wants us to hide himself to those who have no desire to encounter Him while revealing Himself to those whose hearts are open to him. |
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