Criticisms to Paley's argument
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- Criticisms of Paley's argument
- Why David Hume rejected the use of analogy to prove the teleological argument
- 1. The analogy, in general, is limited in points of strengths when comparing one thing to another
- 2. When one looks at a house, we can conclude that it had a builder and an architect.
- However, we cannot deduce a builder or architect of the universe in the same way, as there are no similarities between the two.
- Equally if the house is faulty like the universe, this would suggest that it's builder/ architect is also flawed.
- Paley rejected this : he considered the issue to be whether the universe exhibited signs of design.
- Equally if the house is faulty like the universe, this would suggest that it's builder/ architect is also flawed.
- However, we cannot deduce a builder or architect of the universe in the same way, as there are no similarities between the two.
- There is nothing in the universe that can be satisfactorily compared to the universe itself.
- There are other possible explanations than God for apparent design of the Universe (.e.g. DNA)
- Is there evidence that the world has a single designer? (ship analogy)
- Random activity can lead to orderliness rather than disorder (supported but the discovery of natural selection.)
- J.S. Mill : questioned the goodness of nature given the apparent cruelty to be found within nature (.e.g. the behavior of a digger wasp)
- Natural selection
- Darwin was influenced by his voyage on HMS Beagle.
- Sir Charles Lyell's principle of geology
- "Natural selection can explain the emergence of complex living organisms without any need to refer to a design or a designer.
- Why David Hume rejected the use of analogy to prove the teleological argument
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