Intelligent
Design
Design
In class, Hannah showed a youtube video that featured this weapon as an example of intelligent design.
In class, Hannah introduced a game where everyone had to roll a dice and "win" anything from a dollar to having to stand in the corner. This helped explain that, in a world where free will did not exist, these two things would be completely unfair or undeserved.
What are "rewards (aka benefits or prizes) and consequences (aka punishments)"?
Hannah frequently referred to pineapple on pizza being "right" as a perfect example of this level of moral heirarchy
What is one's self?
Observations from scientists like Vesto Slipher (discovered "red shift"), Georges Lemaitre (father of the big bang), and Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson (discoverers of the cosmic background radiation) logically help us conclude that this had a beginning.
What is the universe?
God's Crime Scene developed a suspect profile by asking whether the attributes of the universe could be explained from this place, much like in a crime scene determines if the evidence points to someone NOT from here.
What is "inside the room"?
"Goal Direction (and intentionality)" describes a person's ability to clearly notice or conclude that something intelligently designed has a specific __________.
What is purpose (aka use)?
Although it's often describes as a feeling, this is a choice, the core of all positive relationships and acts of kindness, and could not exist in a world with no free will. Without it we would just be mindless robots, interacting with each other as a result of our programming.
What is love?
The primary reason that every single person on the planet has some sense of right and wrong that transcends all local or regional laws or customs is because of this basic fact about all humans.
What is "all humans are made in the image of God (who is the transcendent moral truth giver)"?
Hannah's special guest, German scientist Dr. Liesel Googenstein visited the class to explain 5 theories of where this originated
What is life (on planet Earth)?
BONUS! Earn an additional 50 points for every theory (location) you can remember (you cannot use a lifeline)
This item of the suspect profile, "non-spatial, atemporal, and non-material" is just a fancy way of saying this about God.
What is, our suspect (God) must exist outside of space, time, and matter?
(because he is "outside the room" and these three things did not exist before the universe began)
"Efficiency/Irreducible Complexity" describes a person's ability to notice that something intelligently designed does not have any of this.
What is unnecessary (aka unneeded or extra) parts?
OR
What is missing parts?
It is a logical contradiction to argue that there is no such thing as free will, because a person must have the ability to do this in order to even be able to decide on this issue in the first place.
What is reason (aka decide or think about options and choose what to believe)?
C.S. Lewis' quote, "A man doesn’t call a line crooked unless he has a concept of a straight line in his mind" explains this truth about the problem of evil.
What is the clear evidence that evil actually proves God's existence (as our objective moral truth giver)?
That is, our ability to notice evil and be unhappy about it proves that God gave us our sense of right and wrong.
This extremely fine-tuned natural force has been described by atheist scientists as an "unexplained miracle" and is responsible for the size of universe, and the rate of the growth, nature, and existence of galaxies, the orbit of planets, and even the ability for humans to roam the planet.
What is gravity?
The vast number of examples of intelligent design in our universe point to a suspect who has these two characteristics?
What is intelligent and creative?
This most popular example of intelligent design in nature is the Bacterial Flagellum–discovered around the 1970s-which has a bottom section that unmistakably resembles this complex man made machine.
What is a rotary engine (aka car engine or combustion engine)?
DAILY DOUBLE!
Wager any number of points and answer the following (no lifelines allowed):
In the Free Will vs Determinism debate, a determinist would argue that what is perceived as free will is actually this.
If moral truths were simply opinions we hold, and not given to us by a transcendant moral truth giver, we could erase evil tomorrow by simply doing this.
What is "Change our minds (aka decide that evil isn't evil)"?
1. What is the elegant spiral shape of the Milky Way?
2. What is the position of the Milky Way (from other galaxies)
3. What is the size of Milky Way (not too big or too small)?
Our suspect profile includes "a conscious mind" which describes the evidence we see of this characteristic of humanity.
"What is a mental state (aka mind, soul and spirit) that exists outside of the human brain (aka physical body)?
"Dubious (meaning doubtful or skeptical) Probability (referring to chance or likelihood)" describe a person's ability to notice this characteristic of intelligent design.
What is the "likelihood of the pieces of a complex object assembling by chance" (example, the logical absurdity of a person taking a bag full of watch parts and shaking it continuously until a watch forms)?
Free will plays this role explaining the problem of evil we discussed in chapter 8.
What is "evil can be explained if we respect and value our right to choose good things, like love and kindness, while accepting that this means we and others may choose bad or harmful things, which naturally bring consequences to these actions"?
These are five of the 7 levels of Moral Hierarchy described in chapter 7 where J Warner Wallace explained the various levels of rules of right and wrong that gangmember Jesse was subject to.
What are 1. Himself 2. His gang 3. City of Los Angeles 4. State of California 5. United States 6. United Nations 7. A universal, transcendent moral truth giver (God)?
These two of many attributes of our star, the Sun made the origin of life on Earth possible.
What is the perfect distance of our sun from the center of the Milky Way?
What is the perfect age of our sun?
After studying DNA, we concluded that our suspect profile must include this characteristic.
What is "communicative"?