Arguments based on observation

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What is Aquinas' teleological argument?
Natural bodies are directed towards and end by an intelligent being
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What did Paley compare the world to?
A watch
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What does Paley's analogy demonstrate?
That the world was created with a purpose by God
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How can we see that God cares for us?
The care in creation
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Who argued that Paley's analogy is poor?
Hume
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Does Hume think that there is an intelligent worldmaker?
Potentially
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What does Aquinas' First Way argue?
Things are moving from potentiality to actuality and there must be a first mover
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What does Aquinas' Second Way argue?
There must be an uncaused first cause of everything
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What does Aquinas' Third Way argue?
There must be a necessary being which brought all other beings into existence
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What comparison demonstrates a temporal efficient cause?
Dominos
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What comparison demonstrates a sustaining efficient cause?
Plants
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Should we believe that whatever created the world is a genius?
No
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Can we work out the cause just by looking at the effect?
No
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Who referred to evolution as a "blind watchmaker"?
Dawkins
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Does the Big Bang theory support the view that there is a natural cause for the universe?
Yes
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Who argued that arguments based on observation commit a fallacy of composition?
Russell
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Does Ockham's razor argue that a supernatural or natural cause of the universe is more likely?
Natural
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