1. Relgious experience AO2 Exam focus lesson

2. Taboo
You have to describe a key word without using that word (it is taboo!).
Create a list of 5 words, names or ideas connected to miracles, do not show anyone.
Choose one
Describe it to your partner
Their turn
First pair to complete the lists wins – the satisfaction of victory!

3. Impact of religious experience on religious belief

4. Whether religious communities are entirely dependant on religious experiences

5. Match the scholar to the key words and pictures – 3 E
Aquinas Hume Holland Swinburne
Primary cause, Timescale quicker, Transgression, Volition, Coincidence, Sign Secondary cause, Significance, Three types

6. 3 F Revision Taboo
You have to describe a key word associate with Hume or Swinburne without using that word (it is taboo!).
Create a list of 5 words, names or ideas connected to miracles, do not show anyone.
Choose one
Describe it to your partner
Their turn
First pair to complete the lists wins – the satisfaction of victory!

7. ‘No definition of miracles is adequate?’ Page 76
Definitions
Inadequate
Hume ‘violation of the law of nature’
Holland ‘a coincidence interpreted religiously’
Swinburne ‘event of religious significance
Adequate

8. How far different definitions of miracles can be considered contradictory
Argument
Counterargument
Evaluation

9. Summary of challenges to miracles
Counter arguments
Hume – natural laws, witnesses and conflicting claims
Swinburne
Wiles – arbitary God
Pike – see booklet 1
Timeless God
Miracles are pointless – Florida Building
Philosophical arguments – not compatible with the teleological argument
Definitions of miracles are confusing
Science – quantum mechanics and God of the gaps

10. Sample student answer
Use the mark scheme for summer 2012 and the generic marking scheme and give this essay a level and a mark.
Candidates may use some of the following:
Hume's criticisms.
Just a coincidence.
Leads to an arbitrary God who is "not worthy of worship".
Not compatible with love and justice.
Not compatible with Creator establishing laws of nature.
"Breadth or depth" applies here. [30 AO1]

11. Examine what philosophers understand by the term miracle 2013
Homework for Monday 11th January AO1 Essay planning Write a detailed essay plan for the following questions
Examine what philosophers understand by the term miracle 2013
Explain why belief in miracles may be challenged or Examine reasons for not believing in miracles 2015
Examine philosophical issues raised by the concept of miracle. Sample answer in the WJEC textbook