REL 2300, Quiz 3 ("God") There are again 4 different versions of the quiz.  If your social security number (SSN) ends with the numbers 1 -3, use version 1, (questions 1-4, red).  If your SSN ends with 4-5, use version 2 (questions 5-8, blue).  If your SSN ends with 6-8, use version 3 (questions 9-12, green).  And if your SSN ends with 9-0, use version 4 (questions 13-16, purple).
Key TERMS (answers to quiz questions): St. Thomas Aquinas, Faith, Teleological Argument, Cosmological Argument, Ontological Argument, ineffability, Greatest Conceivable Island, Coincidence, Violation, Universal Causation, St. Anselm, William Paley, Aristotle, revelation(s), Unreliable.
1.  Which type of "argument" or reason for God's existence, by definition, really is NOT an argument and needs no argument?  FAITH
2.  What is the name of the Catholic theologian who formulated the Ontological Argument for God's Existence?  ANSELM
3.  What principle states that everything must have a cause?  PRINCIPLE OF UNIVERSAL CAUSATION
4.  Which argument for God's existence compares human artifacts to the universe?  TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
5.  What term, mentioned in class, describes an event or content of consciousness that is incapable of rational expression, or expression in language?  INEFFABILITY
6.  Which argument for God's existence is supposed to be based on pure reason with no elements of experiential claims?  ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
7.  Which Catholic theologian formulated the Cosmological Argument for God's existence?  ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
8.  Deists generally accept which argument for God's existence?  TELEOLOGICAL
9.  What type of miracle is an event that is supposedly contrary to a law of nature?  VIOLATION MIRACLE
10. Which argument for God's existence begins on the basis of the experience of motion or causation?  COSMOLOGICAL
11. Name one of the two people who is generally known for presenting and formulating the Teleological Argument for God's existence.  ST. THOMAS AQUINAS/WILLIAM PALEY
12. How was sense experience described in class as it relates to experiential arguments for God's existence?  UNRELIABLE
13. What type of miracle is an event that appears to go against laws of nature but in fact does not?  In other words, what sort of "miracle" is shown not to be one when there is a reasonable explanation for an event's occurrence?  COINCIDENCE
14. What are direct communications from God to one person and one person only?  REVELATIONS
15. Which argument for God's existence is "goal-based"?  TELEOLOGICAL
16. How did Guanilo present his criticism of the Ontological Argument?  That is, what example did he use to show that the Ontological Argument is insufficient to prove God's existence?  THE GREATEST CONCEIVABLE ISLAND