Ao2 Flashcards
Mackie
Supports Aquinas rejects of infinite regress analogy of train we wouldn’t expect a train with an infite number of carriages being pulled along without engine the idea of god something better needed to pull the carriages
Kant
Argument based on observation and is problematic and how we see world not necessary how things are
Swinsbourne
10 cards shuffling machine probability of universe happening by accident are too slim
Russell
Universe just exist is a brutal fact
Russell human
Supports every human has a mother but human race doesn’t have one mother
Copplestone
Universe is a sum on contingent things that must be necessary beings
Hume challenge
Challenges Fallacy of composition as just because there is a cause in the universe doesn’t mean whole universe has a cause
P1 atoms colourless
P2 cats are made of atoms
P3 therefore cats are colourless