Arguments from Observation- Tele Flashcards
Aquinas
5th way- Arrow
Design qua purpose
Paley
Watch
+ Design qua regularity
FDR Tennant
Anthropic Principle (Goldilock’s), Aesthetic Principle
Penrose
1/123bn
Brown
Ozone layer
Behe
Irreducibly complex eyeball
Swinburne
OCH
Occam’s razor
Universe came from Chaos but not Chaotic
Harder to not believe
Darwin
Fossils-> Gaps-> Don’t know how started
Dawkins
WLE
“Wrong, gloriously and utterly wrong”
Less need to resort to religion as science explains more
Religion Excuse not to think scientifically
Camus+ Marx
“philosophical suicide” + “opiate”
Barbour
“He should not let science dictate the usefulness of religion”
Hawking
Dawkins cannot prove God doesn’t exist
McGrath
Paley not representative of modern believers
JH Newman
“suggesting a larger idea of divine providence”
Frederick Temple
Unity of mankind- polygenism
Mill+ Hambourger+ Law
Evil indicates weak creator+ Reduces nature to man-made+ Evil God challenge= design says nothing about nature of God
Scholars supporting Paley
THATS PBPBNK
Tennant, Hawking, Aquinas, Temple, Swinburne
Paley, Behe, Penrose, Barbour, Newman, Kingsley
Scholars countering Paley
HDDC MMHL
Hume, Darwin, Dawkins, Camus
Marx, Mill, Hambourger, Law
Hume
WOCMU Weak analogy Order does not prove design Christian God not necessary More than one God Unique universe- cannot compare