Those who try to prove that God exists a priori are guilty of impious curiosity For to do that is tantamount to making oneself the god of God thereby denying the God one seeks Giovanni Vico ID: 313418
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Religion
‘Those who try to prove that God exists a priori are guilty of impious curiosity. For to do that is tantamount to making oneself the god of God, thereby denying the God one seeks.’
Giovanni
Vico
, 1668-1744Slide2
Religious terminology
Theism
Pantheism
Atheism
Agnosticism
Logical positivism
anthropomorphism
Paradox of omnipotence
omniamorous
Argument from design
Argument from religious experience
Cosmological argument
Theory of evolution
Metaphysics
omnipotent
omniscient
Religious pluralism
Free will defence
Pascal’s WagerSlide3
Key questions:
Is Faith a good way of knowing?
Is it possible to speak of knowledge in relation to religion?
Can we know if God exists?Slide4
Antropomorphism
How do you see your God? Gender-ethnicity-dress-human-language-thing-personality-force?Slide5
Religious paradoxesSlide6
The argument from religious experience
MysticismReligious experiencemiraclesGod speaks to...
Chosen one
Sceptic
Neuroscience
Epilepsy
Food & sleep deprivation
Cultural
Mystic Joan of Arc
Neuro
scientist
Persinger
Slide7
Discuss:
‘From a scientific point of view, we can make no distinction between a man who eats little and sees heaven and a man who drinks much and sees snakes.’ Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
We sometimes speak of ‘the miracle of birth’. Do you think birth is really a miracle or is the expression just a metaphor? (See
Lagemaat
p. 411)Slide8
The argument from design or teleological argument
Biological
PhysicalSlide9
Theory of evolutionSlide10
Cosmological argumentSlide11
The problem of suffering
Free will defence
Natural sufferingSlide12
Reason versus faith
Faith as WOK
Scientific proof of God: necessary?
Freud: wish fulfilment
Jung’
s
views on religion
Pascal: Odds of God’s existence are 50-50.
If we bet he exists and are right we get to heaven. If we are wrong nothing happens. If we bet he does not exist and are wrong, we go to hell. If we are wrong, nothing happens.Slide13
Faith and intuition
How do you know what you believe?
Do we need proof? Slide14
Varieties of religion: religious pluralism?Slide15
RELEVANT ESSAY QUESTIONS
When should we discard explanations that are intuitively appealing?‘The knowledge that we value the most is knowledge for which we can provide the strongest justifications.’ To what extent do
you agree with this claim?
Belief
has been described as ‘certainty about what cannot be seen’. Does this statement hold true in any, some or all
AOK’s
?Sagan
stated that ‘extroardinary claims require extroardinary evidence’. To what extent do you agree?