 Battleground Analysis
Congratulations!
You have been awarded the TPM service medal! This is our third highest award for outstanding service on the intellectual battleground.
The fact that you progressed through this activity without suffering many hits and biting no bullets suggests that whilst there are inconsistencies in your beliefs about God, on the whole they are well thought-out.
The direct hits you suffered occurred because some of your answers implied logical contradictions. At the bottom of this page, we have reproduced the analyses of your direct hits. You would have bitten bullets had you responded in ways that required that you held views that most people would have found strange, incredible or unpalatable. However, this did not occur, and consequently, you qualify for our third highest award. Well done! Click here if you want to review the criteria by which hits and bullets are determined.
How did you do compared to other people?- 121447 people have completed this activity to date.
- You suffered 2 direct hits and bit zero bullets.
- This compares with the average player of this activity to date who takes 1.37 hits and bites 1.10 bullets.
- 38.15% of the people who have completed this activity have, like you, been awarded the TPM Service Medal.
- 7.48% of the people who have completed this activity emerged unscathed with the TPM Medal of Honour.
- 46.96% of the people who have completed this activity took very little damage and were awarded the TPM Medal of Distinction.
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God of Philosophy
What can we know about God?
If you enjoy thinking about the kinds of issues that have been dealt with in
this activity, then you'll probably enjoy Roy Jackson's book, The God of
Philosophy.
Published by TPM, it covers all the major questions dealt with in the philosophy
of religion. Do we need God to explain the origins of the universe? Can there
be morality without a divine source of goodness? How can God exist when there
is so much evil and suffering in the world?
For a table of contents, click here.
To read the first chapter, on the concept
of God, click here.
For further information, click here.
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Analysis of your Direct Hits
Click here if you want to see a complete listing of the questions that you answered. Direct Hit 1
You answered "True" to questions 10 and 14.
These answers generated the following response:
You've just taken a direct hit! Earlier you agreed that it is rational to believe that the Loch Ness monster does not exist if there is an absence of strong evidence or argument that it does. No strong evidence or argument was required to show that the monster does not exist - absence of evidence or argument was enough. But now you claim that the atheist needs to be able to provide strong arguments or evidence if their belief in the non-existence of God is to be rational rather than a matter of faith. The contradiction is that on the first ocassion (Loch Ness monster) you agreed that the absence of evidence or argument is enough to rationally justify belief in the non-existence of the Loch Ness monster, but on this occasion (God), you do not. ****************Direct Hit 2
You answered "False" to Question 7 and "True" to Question 17.
These answers generated the following response:
You've just taken a direct hit! Earlier you said that it is not justifiable to base one's beliefs about the external world on a firm, inner conviction, paying no regard to the external evidence, or lack of it, for the truth or falsity of this conviction, but now you say it's justifiable to believe in God on just these grounds. That's a flagrant contradiction! ****************
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