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What Will Be Your Defining Moment?

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WhatWillBeYourDefiningMoment?

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TheFourGreatQuestionsofFaith

1. Origin:wheredidyoucomefrom?

2. Morality:howareyousupposedtolive?

3. Meaning:whatisthepurposeofyourlife?

4. Destiny:wherewillyougowhenyoudie?

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StrongRationalism“Nooneshouldbelieveapropositionunlessitcan

beprovedrationallybylogicorempiricallybysenseexperience.

Proofisanargumentsostrongthatanormalpersonwouldnothaveanyreasonfordisbelievingit.”

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ProblemswithStrongRationalism“Nooneshouldbelieveapropositionunlessitcanbeprovedrationallybylogicorempiricallybysenseexperience.Proofisanargumentsostrongthatanormalpersonwouldnothaveanyreasonfordisbelievingit.”

1. Itdoesnotliveuptoitsownstandard.Itisnotprovable.2. Itassumescompleteobjectivity,animpossibility.3. Itisimpossibletoliveby,foranyone!

Noonelivesbythisprinciple.NOONE.

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Listeria Salmonella

E.Coli

Staph.A.

HepatitisA

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StrongRationalism…&Faith

• Imagineapplyingstrongrationalismeverytime– Eatingatarestaurant– Eatinganythingatall,evendrinkingwater–Drivingonthe401

EVERYpersonlivesbyactsoffaithEVERYday,inlifeordeathsituations…whethertheyknowitornot.

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Reason&Faith:PerfectComplements• Faith:Belief,trust,orconfidenceinsomeoneorsomething,suchthatyouact onit.

• Faith:Acceptancethatburdenofproofissatisfied.

• Burdenofproof=Balanceofprobabilities

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Reason&Faith,Together

Inmostcases,certainty(100%proof)isimpossible.

ReasonandFaithworktogether:whencertaintyisimpossible,reasongetsyouascloseaspossible,thentheremainderisanactoffaith.

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TheFourGreatQuestionsofFaith

1. Origin:wheredidyoucomefrom?

2. Morality:howareyousupposedtolive?

3. Meaning:whatisthepurposeofyourlife?

4. Destiny:wherewillyougowhenyoudie?

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QuestionsofOrigin:Causality,Contingency,&TheArrowofTime

• Wheredidyoucomefrom?– Andbeforethat?Andbeforethat?Andbeforethat?

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E=mc2

Science,Causality&Fine-Tuning• Modernsciencetellsus:– Theuniversehadabeginning, itisnotinfinitelyold.Hawking&Penrose.– Theuniversecontainsastounding amountsofenergy.Einstein.– Energyhadtobeinjectedintotheuniverse fromoutside.1st LawofTD.– Theuniversestartedordered, decayingeversince.2nd LawofTD.– Energy,matter,dimensions, physicallaws,physicalconstantsare

allfinely tunedforlifetoexist.Davies,Penzias,Sandage,etc.

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TheBeginningofExistence“Itwouldbeverydifficulttoexplainwhytheuniverseshouldhavebeguninjustthisway,exceptastheactofaGodwhointendedtocreatebeingslikeus.”

StephenHawking,Britishphysicist

"Astronomyleadsustoauniqueevent,auniversewhichwascreatedoutofnothing,onewiththeverydelicatebalanceneededtoprovideexactlytheconditionsrequiredtopermitlife,andonewhichhasanunderlying,dareIsay,supernaturalplan.”

ArnoPenzias(Nobelprizeinphysics)

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E=mc2

Science,Causality&Fine-Tuning• Modernsciencetellsus:– Theuniversehadabeginning, itisnotinfinitelyold.Hawking&Penrose.– Theuniversecontainsastounding amountsofenergy.Einstein.– Energyhadtobeinjectedintotheuniverse fromoutside.1st LawofTD.– Theuniversestartedordered, decayingeversince.2nd LawofTD.– Energy,matter,dimensions, physicallaws,physicalconstantsare

allfinely tunedforlifetoexist.Davies,Penzias,Sandage,etc.

Thereissome“force”fromoutside theuniverse,outsideoftimeandspace,thatcausedauniversetoexistandinjectedmind-blowing amountsofenergy,order, andrationality,tocreateauniversefine-tuned forlife.

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Whichoftheseisaperson?

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Maslow’sHierarchyofNeedsMorality&Meaning

ConsciousRationality

Love&Relationship

Physical

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Personhood• Whatdoesitmeantobea“person”?• Consciousness• Rationality• Relationship• Morality• Meaning

Wrong.

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TheProblemofPain“MyargumentagainstGodwasthattheuniverseseemedsocruelandunjust.ButhowhadIgotthisideaofjustandunjust?Amandoesnotcallalinecrookedunlesshehassomeideaofastraightline.WhatwasIcomparingthisuniversewithwhenIcalleditunjust?”

CSLewis,Britishauthor

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OriginsofPersonhood

Howcouldthiscomeaboutby

chance?

Morality&Meaning

ConsciousRationality

Love&Relationship

Physical

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ReasonableDecisionsofFaith• God:The“Force”ispowerful,rational,personal.– Conscious,rational,moral,loving,meaningful

• You:Origin,Morality,Meaning,Destiny?

• Intellectualintegrity,thenecessityofchoice

• Ourdecisionssolidifyourcharacter– Whatwillbeyourdefiningmoment?


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