Arguments based on observation (cosmological and teleological)

Question 1

Plato

Answer 1

Demiurge may have created a god, not ex nihlo

non judeochristian god created the world not from nothing

Question 2

Aquinas Teleological argument “fifth way”

Answer 2

Analogy of an arrow- everything fulfills there purpose after being acted on,
God must be the designer

Question 3

Aquinas Cosmological argument (3 ways)

Answer 3

1- unmoved mover- God must cause motion in the world

2-uncashed causer- There must be a first cause

3- a non cogtingent being must exsist before we exsist ed. when nothing exsist ed

Question 4

Paley

Answer 4

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Something so complex can’t get thee by chance

Question 5

Hume- 5 Crititisms of Paley Teleological

Answer 5

Critiques Paley and teleological arguments

1- Anthropomorphises God- reduces him to being a designer (human attribute)

2- No experience of world making so cannot compare

3- What causes God to exist himself? when did he come about? How?

4- Could be more then one god

5- Problem of evil

Question 6

Mill

Answer 6

Critical of design arguments as so many imperfections in the world

Question 7

darwin

Answer 7

Natural selection happened by chance