Dr. Leanna Wolfe Summer 2006
Anthropology 121
Quiz #2
Is God An Accident
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What did Stephen Jay Gould mean in contending that religion and science are “non-overlapping magisteria?”
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T/F 96% of Americans believe in God.
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T/F Atheism is more common in America than it is in Europe.
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T/F Marx considered religion to be an opiate for oppressed people.
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What did Freud consider the three-fold task for religious beliefs?
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T/F There are cultures in the world that do not believe in an all-wise and just God.
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T/F Religion may have emerged not to serve a purpose, but by accident.
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Why have the reactions of babies been studied to assess distinctions between physical and psychological?
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T/F We see people as separate from their bodies.
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T/F It is possible for a body to not have a soul.
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Why does the notion of a soul without a body make sense to us?
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T/F We see purpose, intention and design even when they are not there.
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T/F Darwin’s discovery of the theory of natural selection challenged the notion of divine design.
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Do you believe in an afterlife?
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Where do supernatural ideas come from?
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The God Gene—Spiritual Instinct
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What do you consider to be the purpose of life?
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T/F 70% of Americans believe in life after death.
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T/F Efforts to replace God with communism (re: former USSR, China) successfully obliterated spiritual belief and practice.
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T/F U.S. church attendance has increased since the 1950s.
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Have you ever felt as if you had a sense of religious awakening or insight?
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T/F Spirituality is an instinct.
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T/F Spiritual behaviors are deliberate and culturally learned activities.
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T/F According to the God Gene theory, humans have a genetic predisposition to spiritual belief.
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Can spirituality be measured?
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Can spirituality be inherited?
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T/F There is a specific gene that has been associated with self-transcendence.
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T/F Having the God gene provides humans with an innate sense of optimism.
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T/F Memes carry religion from one generation to the next.
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Where do you think you would measure on a self-transcendence scale?
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T/F Behavioral genetic research has been used to explain why humans in general are spiritual.
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T/F Spiritual beliefs and feelings are products of the human brain.
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Secrets of Psychics
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What powers did James Randi discover the Russian psychics have?
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How does psychic surgery work?
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How did Peter Popoff (faith healer) access his divine powers?
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Why did the students who were given “their” astrology charts all believe they were quite accurate?
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What happened when the palm reader decided to tell his subjects the opposite of what he saw?
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