Miscellaneous
The second premise of the Design argument.
What is the universe has a highly complex design?
Patterns which are highly complex.
What is specified complexity?
The objection that says "given enough time, anything can happen."
What is chance +time?
A watch, a building, a soda can, and a work of art are all expamples of this premise of the design argument.
What is "a design requires a designer"?
The scientific term for the various variables which must be present for life to exist on earth.
What is a "constant"?
The theory that says there is an infinite number of universes.
What is the multiverse?
This "Tactic" helps to dismantle the opposing person's argument.
What is "taking the roof off"?
This is the third possibility for how the universe could be so finely-tuned for life, the others being Chance or Design.
What is necessity?
The rule of nature that says things tend toward disorder rather than order.
What is entropy?
This is the second step in the Tactic we learned this unit.
What is "take the idea for a test drive"?
This constant is the "engine" behind the universe's expansion.
What is the cosmological constant?
This constant has to do with total percentage of matter in the universe.
What is Mass Density?
This is the "Core" of the doctrine of Creation from a design perspective.
What is "God created the universe feely out of his love and goodness for his own glory."?
The chance all the constants would be what they are for life in the universe to be possible.
This idea challenges the Darwinian idea that things evolved slowly over time by arguing that even simple-organisms have multiple complex parts.
What is irreducable complexity?
Utilizing the "three circles" what are 2 ways that the Doctrine of Creation and Design connect to the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
What is....
Sets up God's original plan that we have fallen from; Christ is the designer who also redeems us; there is a way things are "meant to be"; everything is for God's glory, including humans; etc.