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Explain the Teleological arguement?

There must be some intelligent being which directs all intelligent natural things towards their end.

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Explain Paley's arguement for the existance of God?

1. A watch has a complex feature. 2. These features must have been designed 3. Therefore the watch must have a designer. 4, The watch is like the universe -Complex. 5. Therefore the universe must have a designer that designer is God.

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Give four reasons why David Hume is against the Teleological arguement...

1. We do not know enough about the worldto make judgements about its design. 2. There could have been many designers. 3. The watch analogy fails. 4. Who designed the designer.

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Explain the cosmological arguement?

1. Everything in this world has a cause. 2. Thid cause in turn has a cause. 3. There cannot be an infinite regression of first causes. 4. Therefore there must be a sungle first cause. 5. That first cause is God.

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Give four reasons why David Hume is against the cosmological arguement...

1. Aquinas contradicts himself. 2. There is no logical absurdity in things can come into existsance without a cause. 3. There could be others first causes. 4. The causation as a universal 'law'.

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Explain Kant's view onthe Moral arguement?

We should all follow our duty to use our reason to follow the correct moral approach.

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