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2. What Philo say to demonstrate the imperfections of the world, what analogy is used?

  • "It must be the accidental outworking of natural forces." If a junk yard has a hurrican move the contents around enough times, eventually you'll have an aeroplane.
  • "The first rude effort of some infant deity, who afterwards abandoned it." Seeing a badly built house leads to reservations sbout the architct.
  • "Nature is red in tooth and claw." If Paley's watch had as many faults as the world does, then we would believe the maker to be tasteless and unskillful

3. What does Dawkins say about Paley's watch maker?

  • "The 'watch maker' tat is cumulative natural selection is blind to the future and has no long term goal"
  • "It must have been a very faulty and flawed watch to reflect the nature of our world"
  • "Watches have makers and people have mothers, but the same logic cannot be applied to the universe"

4. What does Ridley add to the 'selfish gene' concept?

  • We have learnt to over-ride it in order to act morally.
  • Our genes are becoming more selfish as humans become more intelligent.
  • He just supports the view.

5. What was Philo's second argument?

  • The order of the world implies either design or chance, that latter is equally plauible.
  • The world must have had a beginning because infinite regression is impossible.
  • The universe is a brute fact not worth questioning.

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