RLGN 104 CRITICAL THINKING PAPER FINAL
REVIEW GUIDE 2026 FULL RESPONSES
VERIFIED
◉ Cosmological argument. Answer: the universe has a cause and must
therefore have a creator.
◉ Leibnizian cosmological argument. Answer: There is an explanation
for the existence of anything that exists.
If there is an explanation of the existence of the universe, that
explanation is God.
The universe exists.
Therefore, there is an explanation of the existence of the universe.
Therefore, the explanation of the existence of the universe is God.
◉ Telelogical argument. Answer: argues that the universe is so well
designed and finely tuned that only a creator could have made it
◉ naturalism. Answer: the philosophy that only nature exists and the
supernatural is superfluous, generally suggests that the current universe
is a product of a series of evolutions over billions of years; fails to
explain complexity of universe
-William Paley's watchmaker
, ◉ Irreducable complexity. Answer: idea that many molecular machines
are simply too complex to have formed via evolution
◉ Moral argument. Answer: suggests that without God, there can be no
true source of morality. Since all people share some sense of morality, or
right and wrong, there must be an ultimate moral lawgiver. If there is no
God, morality is subjective, becoming a matter of preference rather than
a standard to be met.
-If God does not exist, then objective morals do not either
-Objective morals do exist
-therefore, God exists
◉ Experiential argument. Answer: It simply comes from personal
experience, rooting itself in the experiences that people have had with
God. If a person has had an encounter with God, then this encounter is
evidence that God exists.
◉ Monotheism. Answer: belief in one God; core belief of Christianity
◉ Members of trinity: God. Answer: Eternal (Deut 33:27).
Self-existent (Exod 3:13-14).
Infinite (1 Kgs 8:22-27).
Transcendent (Ps 139:7-12).
Omnipotent (Rev 19:6).
REVIEW GUIDE 2026 FULL RESPONSES
VERIFIED
◉ Cosmological argument. Answer: the universe has a cause and must
therefore have a creator.
◉ Leibnizian cosmological argument. Answer: There is an explanation
for the existence of anything that exists.
If there is an explanation of the existence of the universe, that
explanation is God.
The universe exists.
Therefore, there is an explanation of the existence of the universe.
Therefore, the explanation of the existence of the universe is God.
◉ Telelogical argument. Answer: argues that the universe is so well
designed and finely tuned that only a creator could have made it
◉ naturalism. Answer: the philosophy that only nature exists and the
supernatural is superfluous, generally suggests that the current universe
is a product of a series of evolutions over billions of years; fails to
explain complexity of universe
-William Paley's watchmaker
, ◉ Irreducable complexity. Answer: idea that many molecular machines
are simply too complex to have formed via evolution
◉ Moral argument. Answer: suggests that without God, there can be no
true source of morality. Since all people share some sense of morality, or
right and wrong, there must be an ultimate moral lawgiver. If there is no
God, morality is subjective, becoming a matter of preference rather than
a standard to be met.
-If God does not exist, then objective morals do not either
-Objective morals do exist
-therefore, God exists
◉ Experiential argument. Answer: It simply comes from personal
experience, rooting itself in the experiences that people have had with
God. If a person has had an encounter with God, then this encounter is
evidence that God exists.
◉ Monotheism. Answer: belief in one God; core belief of Christianity
◉ Members of trinity: God. Answer: Eternal (Deut 33:27).
Self-existent (Exod 3:13-14).
Infinite (1 Kgs 8:22-27).
Transcendent (Ps 139:7-12).
Omnipotent (Rev 19:6).
