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Three major sets of “proofs” have emerged as attempts to demonstrate God’s existence. They are called (1) the ontological argument, (2) the cosmological argument, and (3) the teleological argument.

The argument from design, known as intelligent design, has the form of an _______.

_______ reduced the grand aspirations of religion to mere illusions but, even worse, the illusions of an insecure child who had never properly grown up.

Which two disciplines did Kant weave together into a single cohesive philosophy?

Hermeneutics is a term used in philosophy to refer to the discipline of interpreting and understanding the world.

In Kant’s view, God cannot be the object of any possible experience because He possesses which quality?

Leibniz argued that the senses, although necessary for all our actual knowledge, are not sufficient to give us the whole of it, since the senses never give anything except examples, that is to say particular or individual truths.

_______ is St. Thomas Aquinas’s first argument for the existence of God.

Kant influenced German Romantic philosophers who replaced his notion of “constitution” with the notion of “creation”.

__________ argued very strongly for the design argument.