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