Design Argument and Beliefs

What do Catholics believe about God's power and nature as revealed in creation?

• God is the designer of the universe.

• God is not involved in the design of the world.

• God is only partially omnipotent.

• God is indifferent to humanity.

What is the classical design argument for the existence of God?

• The world appears to have no design.

• The world is chaotic and random.

• The world has design, pattern, and order.

• The world is simple and easy to understand.

What analogy is used to explain the design argument?

• A car engine analogy.

• A watch analogy.

• A computer analogy.

• A painting analogy.

What is one of the challenges from Darwin to the design argument?

• Species are created perfectly.

• Natural selection explains the survival of the fittest.

• All species are designed by God.

• The world is static and unchanging.

What is one argument against the design argument regarding natural disasters?

• They are random and purposeless.

• They may have a purpose for human learning.

• They are proof of God's absence.

• They are purely scientific phenomena.

What does the Catholic Church argue about the evolution of species?

• It is purely random.

• God has directed the evolution.

• It disproves God's existence.

• It is irrelevant to the design argument.

What is one reason atheists and humanists reject the design argument?

• It is scientifically proven.

• It lacks evidence of design.

• It is universally accepted.

• It is a strong argument for God.

What is the First Cause according to the cosmological argument?

• The Big Bang

• The universe itself

• God

• Human consciousness

What is one of the criticisms of the cosmological argument by atheists and humanists?

• The universe is too complex to have a cause.

• God is not necessary for the universe to exist.

• The universe is an illusion.

• The universe is eternal and unchanging.

What does the cosmological argument say about everything in the world?

• Everything is random and chaotic.

• Everything has a cause.

• Everything is eternal.

• Everything is an illusion.