Skye & Don's Mid-Term Rpt Quiz questions

Questions:

1.    Name one type of logical fallacy mentioned.

2.    What Hindu God has the power of invisibility and could be hiding in your backyard?

3.    What is the difference between science and religion?

4.    Name one religion that shares a similarity to Christianity.

5.    What school did Guy Harrison graduate from?

6.    Name one scientist that Don mentioned who believed in the existence of God.

7.    Name one scientist that Don mentioned who did not believe in the existence of God.

8.    Don asked you to imagine a universe that had no what?

9.    Don’s experience can best be described by which of the three reasons he and Skye focused on?

 

Skye’s summary of arguments used during the debate:

Reasons Why God Exists:

1.         Someone I Trust Told Me He Exists:

a.         Scientist

b.         Scholars

2.         Nobody Has Ever Disproved the Existence of My God

a.         Science cannot prove everything

b.         That feeling of “little more” inside of us

3.         Science Can’t Explain Everything

a.         That comforting feeling in a hospital

b.         The desire to help other people

 

Reasons God Does Not Exist/ Responses to Don:

I.          Logical Fallacies

a.         Whose job is it to prove a claim?

b.         Does Absence of Evidence trump logic?

II.         Science and Religion are Inherently Different

a.         Science is based in fact

b.         Religion based in faith

III.        How Do You Know Your God is the one?

a.         4,200 religions

b.         Many before Christianity

c.         Many share beliefs with Christianity.