Terms to Know
Pantheist
Someone who believes God and the forces/laws of the universe are one and the same
Theism, Pantheism, Atheism
Most World Religions have more complementary beliefs than contradictory ones
False
"There's no such thing as truth"
How can the statement be true if truth doesn't exist?
I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist
Religious Pluralism
Accepting differing religions as being true. (If they believe it its true for them).
What are the two first principles used to discover all other truths?
Law of Noncontradiction
Law of the Excluded Middle
True
You shouldn't judge others
This statement is a judgement on others!
Chapter 1
Can We Handle the Truth?
All truth claims are ___, narrow, and ____.
absolute
exclusive
It is true that the theistic God exists
If God exists, then miracles are possible
David Hume played a large part in the mass skepticism present in modern society
True (Hume's Skepticism/Empiricism)
Truth cannot be known
If truth cannot be known, how would you know this statement is true?
Chapter 2
Why Should Anyone Believe Anything At All?
The Law of Noncontradiction
The self-evident first principle of thought that says contradictory claims cannot both be true at the same time in the same sense
If something isn’t true, it is false
What are the four main reasons categories people believe something?
Sociological, Psychological, Religious, Philosophical
The structure of your senses and your mind forms all sense data, so you never really know the thing in itself, only what it is to you after your mind and senses form it
False. (Kant's Agnosticism: Nobody can know anything about the real world)
"You should not question others' religious beliefs"
This is a religious belief of pluralists, who are telling others that their own beliefs, if unalligned with this statement, ought to be questioned.
What are one of the names of one of the two authors of the book?
Norman Geisler
Frank Turek
First Principles
Laws not proved by other principles: they are self-evident and inherit the nature of reality that we use innately to discover truth.
What are four of the five most consequential questions in life?
Origin: Where do we come from?
Identity: Who are we?
Meaning: Why are we here?
Morality: How should we live?
Destiny: Where are we going?
Even when we don’t have perfect information, we often have enough to make a reasonably certain conclusion on most questions in life
True (Inductive reasoning gathered from observing the world around us and drawing general conclusions)
The Principle of Empirical Verifiability:
A proposition can only be meaningful if they meet one of the following conditions:
The truth claim is abstract reasoning (like a mathematical equation or a definition)
The truth claim can be verified empirically through one or more of the five senses
This principle does not meet either of its own conditions for it to be meaningful, so it is not meaningful by its own definition.
The title of the official study guide of the book
The Official Study Guide to I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist