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SECTION 1 (60% = 4 x 15%) Answer four of the following eight questions. Each answer is worth 15% of the total mark for the exam. 1. What argument does Hume give to support his conclusion that the belief in miracles is always unjustifiable? 2. Give two versions of the argument from religious experience. 3. Explain the idea and give examples of "the logical varieties" of a religious belief. 4. Why, if our beliefs are involuntary, might any discussion of the "ethics of belief" be pointless? 5. In what way does an anti-rational fideist resemble a skeptic about God's existence? Where do the anti-rational fideist and skeptic part company? 6. What dilemma does Flew's "falsification challenge" mean to put to the religious believer? 7. Under what interpretation would morality be "queer" in an entirely naturalistic universe? 8. Why is "tolerance" regarding religious diversity often "a difficult virtue"? SECTION 2 (40%) Answer one of the following three essay questions. 1. Explain and evaluate negative theology's approach to religious language as a response to the falsification challenge. 2. Why should we prefer either Kant's or Nietzsche's myth about God's existence and the fitness of the world for our moral vocation as human beings? 3. Explain why a theistic evidentialist and a theistic pragmatist are not likely to approve of each other's idea of the nature of faith. Why should one ideal of faith be preferred over the other? TOT AL MARKS: 100 Page 2 of 2