Strengths and Weaknesses of the Teleological Argument
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- Created on: 10-05-14 12:38
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- The Teleological Argument
- Strenghts
- Humans may find comfort with it as it gives the universe meaning
- It could be compatible with science, the big bang could be the stages in which God designed the Earth
- Use of analogies make it relatable to real life
- Based on inductive reasoning - you can't deny there's order and regularity in the world
- "Our scientific knowledge brings us no nearer to understanding the beauty of music" - Tennant
- Weaknesses
- Hume
- Analogy is Weak
- Watch = Technical
- Earth = Organic
- Watch = Technical
- Fallacy of Composition
- Too big of an assumption to assume God as a designer
- We have no experience of a cause
- Too big of an assumption to assume God as a designer
- Not the God of Classical Theism
- How can an all-loving God create natural evil?
- Epicurean Hypothesis
- If you give a monkey a typewriter for an infinite amount of time then eventually it will write the works of Shakespeare
- "Our experience, so imperfect and so limited"
- Analogy is Weak
- Kant
- We perceive order, but is it really order? Without further knowledge of other worlds.
- Mill
- How is God all-powerful and there still be animal suffering and natural evil?
- Darwin - Adaption
- If we were made in God's image, which is perfection, why have we changed through time?
- "The universe is just a brute fact" - Bertrand Russel
- Hume
- Strenghts
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