Philosophy: design criticisms
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- Criticisms
- David Hume
- bad analogy - uniqueness of universe
- if we see a house, we know from our knowledge of houses that it had an architect, a designer
- we cannot have this and knowledge and experience of universes
- as we dot not see them being built in our day to day lives, like houses
- because of this we cannot conclude that the universe has a designer
- a multiplicity of causes
- there may be any number of causes for the creation of the universe
- the universe bears closer resemblance to an animal or vegetable than anything else
- 'spun from the bowels of a spider'
- Hume does not believe this but says there is as much evidence for this as there is for a designer God
- principle of causality: gardener analogy
- in terms of cause and effect, the effects limit the cause
- if a gardener creates a beautiful garden the we can assume that he has talent in regard to gardening
- what we don't know is whether the gardener is a nice person or not
- botched worlds
- the world is not perfect so we cannot say that the creator is perfect
- there may have been attempts at creating a world before it worked
- it is too much credit to say that only one God who created the universe
- it takes away from God's omnipotence to say that he made mistakes
- bad analogy - uniqueness of universe
- Charles Darwin
- theory of evolution challenges Michael Behe's irreducible complexity
- things develop (go through evolution) in order to survive
- Epicurean hypothesis
- there is an infinite number of universe and worlds
- therefore the one that is designed is by chance not creation
- Richard Dawkins
- The Blind Watchmaker
- God does not need to explain complexity, for example how the human eye has developed to detect both light and dark which happened through evolution
- J S Mill's problem of evil
- the human body isn't perfect the appendix may have to removed in certain situations
- therefore design is not perfect, there are errors
- David Hume
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