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| Anybody who believes in any god or God. |
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| Witholds judgement about whether God exists. |
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| The belief that god exists and created the universe but does not actively participate in its functioning. |
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| Source of suffering not caused by human being. i.e.natural disaster/disease |
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Source of suffering caused by humans.
i.e murder/torture |
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| Belief not based on evidence. |
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| Established facts that make a belif more probable. |
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| Argument that says it's a "good bet to belive in God". (It's in your best interest to belive. |
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| Everything external to your mind. |
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| View othat we lack some sort of knowledge. |
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| Thought experiment used to show we lack knowledge of external world. |
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| Nothing exists outside of your mind. |
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| Aspect of scientific method thatconerns how we arrive at a hypothesis. |
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| Aspect of scientific method that concerns how we test a hypothesis in ways that are quantifiable repeatable and objective. |
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| Emperist says that all simple ideas come from experinece and complex ideas can be built up from simple ideas. |
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Not based on experience. (prior to experince)
Ex: math |
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Based on experince. ("post" after experience)
Ex: Science |
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| Can not realistically imagine being mistaken about something. |
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Statement that leads to a contradiction.
Ex: "This sentence is false."
Liar paradox! |
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| Argues that life after death is incoherant. |
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| Argues that there is some evidense for life after death-i.e.near death experinces. |
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| Understanding our limits is the first step toward having faith. |
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| Believe not based on evidnece is irresponsible and dangerous. |
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| We can prove existance of god from concept of god alone. |
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| We cant prove anything is necessary or possible based on what we can concieve. |
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| There must be a first cause to events in the universe and that first cause is God. |
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| The order and complexity of universe shows that it must have an intellignet desigener. |
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| Belief in God arrises out of fear and ignorance. |
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| Suffering that exists in a word is incompatable with the existance of an all good all powerful God. |
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| Suffering serves legitimate purpose to build character. |
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| Thinks we have knowledge if and only if we have certainty. |
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| We know something when we can put it to use. |
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| All knowledge comes from experince. |
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| Some knowledge comes form experince but also we have some knowledge that comes form reason alone (mathamatics). |
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| We lack knowledge about the external world. |
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| Skeptism about external world is incoherrent. |
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| We can use induction to make predicitons about the future. |
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| There is no rational basis for assuming induction is reliable. |
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| Argues that science provides the best method for aquiring knowledge. |
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| Argues that science is dehumanising ans dangerous. |
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| Argues that a statement is true if it accuratly represents the facts. |
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