teleological argument
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- Created on: 18-05-16 22:50
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- teleological argument
- paley
- comes across a rock -its simplicity means it can be inferred it came to be by chance
- comes across watch which is so complex it must have had a designer
- it has specific and dispensable materials, it has several parts and regular motion so must have been designed
- like effects have like causes (effect must have been god
- can apply this to the human eye
- it has specific and dispensable materials, it has several parts and regular motion so must have been designed
- swinburne
- split into spatial order (organisation of parts to serve a purpose) and temporal order (the orderliness in the way things follow one after the other)
- Swinburne thinks its best to argue from temporal order
- no better explanation for the regularities regarding the laws of nature than in terms of person
- Swinburne thinks its best to argue from temporal order
- split into spatial order (organisation of parts to serve a purpose) and temporal order (the orderliness in the way things follow one after the other)
- critisisms
- paley
- hume
- like effects do not always have like causes
- also the watch is an unsound analogy as the world does not work like a machine
- we have no experience of world making so we cannot infer
- arg. puts a very human view on god
- we have no experience of world making so we cannot infer
- also the watch is an unsound analogy as the world does not work like a machine
- like effects do not always have like causes
- kant
- arguments from purpose and regularity
- paley
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