'we see that things that lack knowledge, such as natural bodies, act for an end, and this is evident from their acting always in the same way, so as to obtain the best result'
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The Analogical Argument Premises
'the watch's several parts are framed and put together for a purpose', 'the analogy of animals to complex machines seems to me correct, and its conclusion justified' (Swinburne)
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Dawkin's Criticisms of Analogical Argument
'purpose coloured spectacles', 'we are so grotesquely lucky to be here', 'if it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker'
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Hume's Criticisms of Analogical Argument
'who afterward abandoned it, ashamed of his lame perfomance'
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Evil and Suffering (Malevolent God)
'if the Maker of the world can do all that he will, he wills misery and there is no escaping that conclusion' (John Stuart Mill)
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Argument from Probability
'all the regularity in nature would be due to the action of a postulated God'
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Aesthetic Argument
'From an intelligibility point of view, beauty seems to be superfluous and has little survival value'
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Anthropic Principal
'the survival of the fittest presupposes the arrival of the fit'
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
'the watch's several parts are framed and put together for a purpose', 'the analogy of animals to complex machines seems to me correct, and its conclusion justified' (Swinburne)
Back
The Analogical Argument Premises
Card 3
Front
'purpose coloured spectacles', 'we are so grotesquely lucky to be here', 'if it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker'
Back
Card 4
Front
'who afterward abandoned it, ashamed of his lame perfomance'
Back
Card 5
Front
'if the Maker of the world can do all that he will, he wills misery and there is no escaping that conclusion' (John Stuart Mill)
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