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6. Can Hume's analogy criticism apply to Aquinas?

  • No, only Paley
  • No but they can on the occasion of his arrow analogy
  • Yes

7. Mills argument took the basis of that if the world is designed by a loving God?.. (finish sentence)

  • why are there imperfections in the world?
  • why is nature so cruel?
  • why does God not reveal himself?

8. What was the issue of using Paley's watch analogy with God?

  • Watches are the effects of evolution, over millions of years people were unable to create such, and as skills passed it was learnt and so is not applicable with God
  • If you do not believe elements of the analogy are comparable, you cannot argue that the causes are similar and the analogy would not work
  • We cannot use language to describe God so we cannot describe him with something we can describe
  • Effectively, God created watches

9. Is Hume doubting the belief in God in the teleological argument?

  • No, only that it cannot show God exists
  • Yes as there are other reasons to explain design
  • Yes, there is no God

10. What was the 'anthropic principle'?

  • if the world was due to chance and natural selection then why are there still malfunctions in human life
  • such conditions (in reply to evolution) cannot be down to chance
  • beauty is existing around the world which cannot be due to natural selection

11. Darwin's book was called 'The Origin of Species'?

  • True
  • False

12. Hume argues further that, if a house and universe are similar, just as we'd blame the builder for a faulty house can we blame a faulty designer.. why does Paley disagree?

  • Paley did not dispute this argument, Flew did
  • the issue was whether the universe showed design and not quality concerning the design
  • a builder cannot be forever responsible for problems as time creates problems, the world began perfect
  • this argument would be inconsistent with his rejection of analogy