Design argument
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- Created on: 12-05-13 11:19
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- Design argument
- Characteristics of the world
- Order
- The world appears ordered
- Purpose
- The regularity seems to have a purpose
- Benefit
- The purpose seems to benefit
- Sustain
- Sustains human lif
- Aesthetic
- The world is beautiful
- Regularity
- The world is consistent and somewhat predictable
- Order
- Paley's argument
- Posteriori
- After experience
- We experience the design of the world through empiracle evidence
- Strength
- The more experience we have the greater the strength of the argument
- Accessible to all as based on empiralcle evidence.
- Weakness
- The believer 'dies the death of a thousand qualifications'
- After experience
- Deductive
- If the premise is true the conclusio is probable
- Swinburne
- Use the idea of probability everyday, why should we not use it when talking of God.
- Mad man in chard machine
- Temporal order
- Laws of nature throughout the universe
- The world appears ordered, and works towards a formular.
- God would want order as humans can make predictions from consistency and is part of beauty
- making GOD more probable
- someone must have ordered these laws
- making GOD more probable
- someone must have ordered these laws
- God would want order as humans can make predictions from consistency and is part of beauty
- Use the idea of probability everyday, why should we not use it when talking of God.
- Swinburne
- Strength
- Through reason people can come to most probable thing
- Weakness
- No certainty
- If the premise is true the conclusio is probable
- Analogy
- Weakness
- Hume
- Weak anology
- world does not apear mechanical more organic
- analogy of world and carrot is better, both grow and develop.
- Other possible anologies
- analogy of world and carrot is better, both grow and develop.
- Links between world and watch are weak
- world does not apear mechanical more organic
- Other possible anologies
- have no experience of world making
- cant' suggest it was designed.
- Should compare a world with another world which we have evidence of design.
- Overcome...
- Have no experience of watch making but it is possible to prove it has been designed.
- cant' suggest it was designed.
- Weak anology
- Poor link
- Just because the analogy suggests design does not mean the designer was God.
- World may appear designed but there is other possible reasons
- Evolution- Darwin- Natural selection etc.
- Hume
- Strengths
- Based on empiracle evidence
- Evidence from sense
- accessible to all people
- all people can reach the same conclusion if the point is followed throughout
- Based on empiracle evidence
- a comparison of two things to show how they are similar
- A watch and a world share characteristics which suggest it is designed.
- intelligence
- Because the world and the watch all share similar characteristics, it is possible to suggest they were both designed.
- If you stumbled across a watch....
- Because the world and the watch all share similar characteristics, it is possible to suggest they were both designed.
- Complexity
- Because the world and the watch all share similar characteristics, it is possible to suggest they were both designed.
- If you stumbled across a watch....
- Because the world and the watch all share similar characteristics, it is possible to suggest they were both designed.
- Order
- Purpose
- intelligence
- A watch and a world share characteristics which suggest it is designed.
- Weakness
- qua purpose
- a comparison of two things to show how they are similar
- A watch and a world share characteristics which suggest it is designed.
- intelligence
- Complexity
- Order
- Purpose
- intelligence
- A watch and a world share characteristics which suggest it is designed.
- Beneficial order suggests design.
- a comparison of two things to show how they are similar
- Regularity
- Paley also identified that the world acts in an ordered, regular way
- All planets acts in a consistent way, meeting laws.
- God is the only person who could be responsible for such order
- All planets acts in a consistent way, meeting laws.
- Weakness
- Darwin theory of evolution
- Paley also identified that the world acts in an ordered, regular way
- Posteriori
- Swinburne
- Use the idea of probability everyday, why should we not use it when talking of God.
- Mad man in chard machine
- Temporal order
- Laws of nature throughout the universe
- The world appears ordered, and works towards a formular.
- God would want order as humans can make predictions from consistency and is part of beauty
- making GOD more probable
- making GOD more probable
- God would want order as humans can make predictions from consistency and is part of beauty
- Use the idea of probability everyday, why should we not use it when talking of God.
- Aquinas
- Unintelligent beings act towards and end or purpose
- Archer and arrow
- Only possible mover is God
- Unintelligent beings act towards and end or purpose
- Strengths of the design argument
- Weaknesses of the design argument
- Hume
- Unsound analogy
- The inductive leap from the characteristics is too big
- Other possible anologies
- Carrot- growth and development
- weak link to Darwin + evolution possibly
- Carrot- growth and development
- The analogy of God being a designer makes him more human than divie
- non-moral God
- Why would he allow earthquakes, tsunais?
- multiple Gods
- Have no experience of world making
- other explanations for design.
- Unsound analogy
- Darwin
- The world appears designed
- Due to evolution not a desgner
- The world appears designed
- problem of evil +suffering
- Mill
- Hume
- Characteristics of the world
- Analogy
- Weakness
- Hume
- Weak anology
- world does not apear mechanical more organic
- analogy of world and carrot is better, both grow and develop.
- analogy of world and carrot is better, both grow and develop.
- Links between world and watch are weak
- world does not apear mechanical more organic
- have no experience of world making
- cant' suggest it was designed.
- Should compare a world with another world which we have evidence of design.
- Overcome...
- Have no experience of watch making but it is possible to prove it has been designed.
- cant' suggest it was designed.
- Weak anology
- Poor link
- Just because the analogy suggests design does not mean the designer was God.
- World may appear designed but there is other possible reasons
- Evolution- Darwin- Natural selection etc.
- Hume
- Strengths
- Based on empiracle evidence
- Evidence from sense
- accessible to all people
- all people can reach the same conclusion if the point is followed throughout
- Based on empiracle evidence
- Weakness
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