Hume criticisms of existence of God
- Created by: reayofsunshine
- Created on: 16-02-17 13:06
View mindmap
- Humes Criticisms of arguments for the existence of God
- Cant compare the world to a watch
- Characteristics of purpose and design may be obvious in a watch but not so obvious in the world
- Not realistic to draw comparisons between the world and a machine when there is very little similarity
- Characteristics of purpose and design may be obvious in a watch but not so obvious in the world
- Order in the world doesn't mean that there is a designer
- why do we leap to the conclusion of a divine oderer
- recognition of order has its limitations
- we do not have other worlds to compare to to see which is more ordered than the other
- Any world will look ordered because if it was unordered and chaotic it would not survie
- but this does not mean we should jump to the conclusion of God
- This self sustaining order must have come about by chance
- criticized the design argument as it assumes that if we look at the effect (world) we can automatically assume the effect (God)
- Aquinas claimed that this was possible that we can work backwards to see that God must be the cause of it
- but cause and effect does not work as simply as this
- Aquinas claimed that this was possible that we can work backwards to see that God must be the cause of it
- We have a finite and imperfect world, whats to suggest that there is an infinite perfect God behind it?
- we cannot say that B follows from A as proof when there could be other explainations
- Cant compare the world to a watch
Similar Philosophy resources:
Teacher recommended
Comments
No comments have yet been made