reconcilability of religious claims to miracles and the scientific worldview The notion that instances of religious miracles can still form part of and is reconcilable with a modern scientific worldview is a notion that is becoming more difficult to justify. In the modern trend of religious adaptability to a growing scientific worldview the reconcilability between religious claims and a scientific worldview can be made. The reconcilability of religious claims pertaining to miracles in a scientific worldview
and explains how the evidence presented has been largely flawed or inaccurate; 3) Rachels speaks about the alleged psychics and mediums who’s claim to speak with the deceased is filled with fraud and sleight of hand; 4) He summarizes Hume’s argument regarding miracles and how it is scarcely ever sensible to believe in them. Summary: In the chapter “Do We Survive Death,” James Rachels explores the question of life after death and analyses some of the more widely believed concepts concerning the afterlife
WORKSHEET 3 RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT 7. What are Wolterstorff’s arguments for God being everlasting rather than eternal? How do the positions of Stump and Kretzmann, as well as Helm’s compare to Wolterstorff’s? Which of the three do you personally find the most convincing? Why? The argument that Wolterstorff presented is that God cannot be the Redeemer and eternal at the same time. Wolterstorff, by holding this idea that since God does change, He must exist within time, making God
What is evil and who creates it? If evil is created, does one automatically assume God is responsible for it, if in fact He is the creator of all things. This leads to the troubling question of why; why would God allow such a thing on earth, given he had the choice of what was produced, or exempt from this world? If God is considered 'good in itself,' then why would he allow humans to be struck by evil. Moreover, if God can't control evil in the world, how is He the Supreme Being. In other words
Religion Instructors: Dr. Joseph Poulshock, Dr. Treiber, Mr. Kumarasingham Term Paper July, 2016 Topic: Intelligent design and Indeterminism Introduction 1.The anthropic principle and its challenges The anthropic principle, also known as argument for the existence of God from design, describes nature as a result of fine tuning. This explanation seems to satisfy our inquiry of the wonders of nature and things that happen to the world that are beyond sense perception. It also takes into account