"God exists. Ergo. Therefore, God exists. =3 "

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Update:-
No one got to take KI. Mr Spencer "found it unsuitable to hold a KI class this year".
Translation- Us students must be friggin' stupid, or he's just plain asinine. Ah well, more time to focus on the other subs.

On the other hand, 4/5 of the questions were "explained succinctly". Ha! Failed one was the inadequate proof pertaining to existence of God. But, but, "main point was grasped".

Distinction in test paper! Woot!

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So school has started.

Again.

And woop-tee-doo, Don was insane enough to try for KI.

For the uninitiated, KI is the abbreviation for Knowledge and Inquiry.

Yeah, it's the study of knowledge and yada yada.

Take it to be General Paper. General Paper X 20. That's how "fun" KI is.

But it's about philosophy, no? I'll like it!

Adrian was nice enough to get Don the test paper, so Don sat for it.

Note: Don has already completed the paper, but can't be bothered to write the entire paper/ explanation here. Just add the pieces up. You'll get the picture.

Try attempting the questions, first.

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1. In the course of the slave trade which took captive Africans under terrible conditions in slave-ships from the Guinea coast across the Atlantic to the Americas, a higher proportion of the crews (free men) of these ships died than the slaves in their holds. Explain.


2. A lamp is set to switch on and off for 24 hours, in the following sequence. It's on for the first 12 hours, then off for 6, then on for 3, then off for 90 minutes, on for 45 minutes and so on. At the end of the 24 hours will it be on or off?

Limiting factor towards infinity, arh. Siao.

3. What comment would you make on the following arguments (both of which contain flaws) for the existence of God? You are not to make use of religion or faith or belief in your answer but just evaluate the argument as it stands on its own premises.

(a) Every event in the world, or feature in the world, is seen to have a cause. If we look for all possible causes for all possible events, eventually we will arrive back at a first or original cause and that cause is God.


(b) If we came across an abandoned Rolex watch we would never assume that such an intricate mechanism did not have an intelligent designer or creator. Similarly, since the universe and life are inifinitely more complex than a Rolex watch, we should assume that they also have an intelligent designer, namely God.

Errrrrrr...

We have to analyse arguments to prove existence of God?

Siao, lah.

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Don's Answers (or at least attempts):-

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1. Proportion and conditional treatment. More slaves than crews. Takes 10 out of 100 slaves to perish to match the death percentage of 1 outta 10 crew deaths.

2. Off. Lightbulb would burst.

3(a). And Jesus answered and said to them, "Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, `Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it will happen. "And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive." (Matthew 21:21-22 NAS)

IMMEDIATE FAIL. CANNOT USE RELIGION.

Just joking.

Assumptions that God is the first premise. Cause and effect. Flaw lies in assumption.

3(b). Funny enough, an invention would not have an equally intelligent/complex inventor. Or not, a watch can create another one. Still, how can one explain cloning? But I digress. Flaw STILL lies in assumption.

It's pre-existentialism!


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This test sure fail, liao.

Pui.