(iii) ‘Experience of’ is not in itself knowledge
Suppose it were indisputable that God is genuinely experienced in some form of first-hand awareness. It does not follow that such first-hand experience or encounter, on its own, would count as knowledge at all. The point can be put this way. We generally think that someone who has experienced something for themselves is in a better position to know the truth about it than someone who has not. Yet why should that be so? What does first-hand experience add, that all available second-hand knowledge cannot supply?
RE Foundations exam papers Questions 2009-2014
Specimen paper June 2009
EITHER
1 (a) (i) What are the main ideas of the design and cosmological arguments for the existence of God? (21)
(ii) Choose one of these arguments and comment on its weaknesses.(9)
OR
(b) (i) Examine the main strengths and weaknesses of the design argument for the existence of God.(21)
(ii) Consider the view that the weaknesses are more convincing than the strengths. (9)
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