Catholic Studies Quiz 2

Embedded Intelligence

if something requires intelligence to figure out, intelligence was required for its creation

Indicators of deisgn

utility and symmetry

Irreducible complexity

systems or organisms whose operations depend on a complete set of finely tuned elements must’ve been created by intelligent agent

First cause

created the universe for benefit of creation; freely chooses love and is God

Impassibility

self-suffieciency and immateriality

Omniscience

omnipotent and omnipresence

Aquinas’s five ways

focus on question, list objections, statement of answer, detailed explanation, and answer objections

Imago Dei

Love + choice = will

Knowing God

knowing the truth about what he created (science and philosophy,) ourselves in regard to design (moral theology,) and God directly (natural theology)

Lollipop of free will

choose between all morally good – we are free to choose evil (moral evil)

Illative sense

scientists use to decide whether something is worth studying

Tactic knowledge

personal way of understanding

Middle ages

science was developing; golden years; most didn’t think so

Galileo

supported Copernican theory which was against scripture; the affair was personal and more important than the science; house arrest

Newtonian Physics

space and time may well be infinite

Big bang

began with heat and high energy radiation which has cooled

Kalaam argument

whatever begins to exist has a cause – universe

Design arguments

one encounters structure and concludes that it must be the case that an agent with intelligence is responsible

Deism

views God as “watchmaker”

Contemporary physics

in order for physical conditions to support humans to exist, other conditions must exist and so on and so forth

Anthropic coincidence

designer of structure must have had humans in mind all along

Common ancestry

according to human reason, extremely likely to be true (fossils)

Evolution

what happened, description; why happened, explanation

Natural selection

variation, survival of best adapted, and successful reproduction

Neo-Darwinism

generally accepted; variation is a result of purely random genetics; professional biologists claim

Human genenis

Pope Pins Xll 1950 – disagreed with materialist argument since human souls have freedom and choice

Materialist argument

everything that exists is likely composed exclusively of matter, humans exist, humans are likely made exclusively of matter; human properties are entirely determined

Emergentism

freedom and intellection + interpretations of human nature

Determinism

events are determined by causes external to human will

Godels theorem

mind can stand outside itself