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6. What evidence is there that the argument has perennial appeal?

  • Beauty plays no part in our survival (suggests a personal designer)
  • Dates back to Plato and Socrates
  • There is a considerable amount of disorder in the universe

7. David Hume Quote?

  • "Design strikes even the most careless of thinkers"
  • "Order is mind imposed"
  • "The universe is open to theistic and atheistic interpretations"

8. What is anthropomorphism?

  • Giving God human attributes; limiting him
  • Comparing God to a watch
  • Evidence of science limiting God

9. What is regularities of succession?(Swinburne)

  • scientific laws can be observed and understood
  • the universe provides all we need and more
  • The Watch ananlogy

10. What would Richard Dawkins state about the changes in the evolutionary process?

  • Weak because we are making conclusions about the universe by comparing something man-made to 'God's' creation
  • That they are random and only give the appearance of design "evolution is blind"
  • It disproves God

11. Who put forward the analogy of a watch?

  • Swinburne
  • William Paley
  • F R Tennant

12. What is the aesthetics principle? (Tennant)

  • the watch analogy
  • beauty plays no part in our survival (suggests a personal designer)
  • universe is specially constructed for intelligent life

13. What does providential mean? (Swinburne)

  • The Watch ananlogy
  • the universe provides all we need and more (goes beyond mere survival)
  • The design argument proves God

14. What would Hume state about the design argument?

  • People are driven by their emotions, removes rationality
  • Design is God-given (designer)
  • Design proves the existence of God