Text: The Reason Why Faith Makes Sense by Mark Mittelberg, Tyndale House, Carol Stream IL, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4143-1581-2
After viewing the video A Short Course in Apologetics 2, please read Chapter 2 of the text, Is There a God? and give short answers to the following questions:
- What bias does the author contend is at the heart of so much recent “skeptical literature and opinion?” (p. 8)
- What is the field of exploration that is used to support such a bias?
- What is the philosophical term (two words) that Einstein cited to support the idea of the universe as having a beginning?
- What are the five independent lines of evidence that Jastrow cites to support the idea of the sudden creation of the universe?
- What religious term does the author use to describe such an event? (p. 15)
- What is the second argument the author cites to support the idea of God as Creator?
- What stunning phrase does physicist Paul Davies use when describing the way the universe appears to be unusually welcoming to the presence of life? (p. 19)
- Which of the four forces in nature does the author discuss as an example of the apparent careful ordering of the universe, through its fixed “laws and constants?”
- If Einstein saw an intelligence behind the ordering of the physical world, what world did former atheist Dr. Antony Flew contend also possessed such a Designer’s touch?
- What are the four additional lines of evidence the author cites beginning on page 24 that point to a Creator God?
- What is the reason the author cites on page 28 that many people refuse to acknowledge God?
"Kama ilivyoelezwa katika kitabu ""The Reason Why Faith Makes Sense"" cha Mark Mittenberg, Tyndale House, Carol Stream, IL, 2011." "Kama unajua, ""A Short Course in Apologetics"" ni kitabu cha kwanza katika kitabu cha Biblia kinachoitwa Is There a God?" "Kwa hivyo, kwa sababu ya maoni ya ""mwenyeji"" wa maoni haya, ni muhimu kujua ni nini kinachohusika katika ""maandishi ya kushangaza"" na ""maoni ya kushangaza"" ya hivi karibuni, na ni nini kinachotumiwa kuunga mkono upendeleo huo?" "Kuna maneno mawili ya kifalsafa ambayo Einstein alitoa ili kuunga mkono wazo la kwamba ulimwengu ulikuwa na mwanzo.""" Ni nini mstari wa tano wa ushahidi wa kujitegemea ambao Jastrow anataja ili kuunga mkono wazo la uumbaji wa ghafla wa ulimwengu? - Mwandishi hutumia neno gani la kidini kueleza tukio kama hilo? (Mstari wa 15) - Ni hoja gani ya pili ambayo mwandishi anataja ili kuunga mkono wazo la Mungu kuwa Muumba? "Kwa mfano, mwanasayansi wa fizikia Paul Davies aliandika hivi: ""Ulimwengu unaonekana kuwa wenye kukaribisha sana uhai.""" "Kama Einstein aliona akili nyuma ya utaratibu wa ulimwengu wa kimwili, ni ulimwengu gani ambao mwanatheisti wa zamani Dk. Antony Flew alidai pia alikuwa na kugusa kama hiyo ya Mbuni?""" Ni nini mstari wa nne wa ushahidi wa ziada wa mwandishi anayetaja kuanzia ukurasa wa 24 ambao unaonyesha kuwa kuna Mungu Muumba? "Kwa nini mwandishi wa kitabu hicho anataja ""mwisho wa mambo"" katika ukurasa wa 28?"