Criticisms of the Teleological Argument
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- Criticisms of the Teleological Argument
- Hume
- Analogies
- Experience
- We cannot use human analogies to describe how the universe was created
- We don't have experience of other universes
- Just because a watch has a designer, doesn't mean the universe needs one
- We don't have experience of other universes
- We cannot use human analogies to describe how the universe was created
- Organic Universe
- Apparent Design
- Poor Design
- Even if we assume the universe has been designed, how do we know it has been designed well
- We have no other universes to compare its design to
- Even if we assume the universe has been designed, how do we know it has been designed well
- Many Builders
- Absent Designer
- Once a builder has finished constructing a ship, they usually move onto another job
- This could also be true for the universe, and the designer could have left it to its own devices, or they could have died
- Once a builder has finished constructing a ship, they usually move onto another job
- Mill
- He says the world
is not the
result of intelligent design
- Either there is no God or there exists a cruel God who designed the world allowing evil and suffering
- He says the world
is not the
result of intelligent design
- Kant
- We only experience the phenomenal world so our senses our limited and cannot exceed to the noumenal world
- Darwin
- Believes we got to where we are today through natural selection and have required our characteristics through adapting to the environment, not being designed to do so
- Hume
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