The Milgram experiments discussed in chapter one of the text are intended to illustrate that:
a. many normal intelligent people, when instructed by an authority, will actagainst their better judgment
b. our intellectual independence is stable and not susceptible to challenge byauthority.
c. only uneducated and gullible individuals are likely to abandon their ownjudgment to authority figures.
d. any experiment that is cleverly devised can cause people to do crazy thingsthat they otherwise would not have done.
a
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According to the text, the Darwinian theory does not altogether destroy the argument from design because the theist can respond that
a. evolution is just a theory, not a fact. b. evolution cannot explain the human mind. c. the process of evolution is the means God used to achieve his purpose for the world. d. evolution cannot explain our purpose for being on earth.
By the 1990s traditional Oglala spiritual practices __________
a. had been absorbed into the American Indian Movement's rituals b. had been totally replaced by Christian rituals c. had died out on the Pine Ridge Reservation, but were being kept alive in other places d. were dying out because they are still outlawed by U.S. law e. were undergoing renewal in a variety of ways
What type of morality does Plato argue for?
a. Instrumental b. Functionalist c. Egoist d. Relativist
Which of the following is true of the Gospels?
a. They chronicle the life of Jesus of Nazareth. b. They give their attention to the establishment of a new religion in Christ's name. c. They contain detailed physical descriptions of Jesus. d. The exact details of Jesus's last few months differ among the four Gospels.