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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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Slide1

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?