Arguments from Observation- Tele

Question 1

Aquinas

Answer 1

5th way- Arrow

Design qua purpose

Question 2

Paley

Answer 2

Watch

+ Design qua regularity

Question 3

FDR Tennant

Answer 3

Anthropic Principle (Goldilock’s), Aesthetic Principle

Question 4

Penrose

Answer 4

1/123bn

Question 5

Brown

Answer 5

Ozone layer

Question 6

Behe

Answer 6

Irreducibly complex eyeball

Question 7

Swinburne

Answer 7

OCH
Occam’s razor
Universe came from Chaos but not Chaotic
Harder to not believe

Question 8

Darwin

Answer 8

Fossils-> Gaps-> Don’t know how started

Question 9

Dawkins

Answer 9

WLE
“Wrong, gloriously and utterly wrong”
Less need to resort to religion as science explains more
Religion Excuse not to think scientifically

Question 10

Camus+ Marx

Answer 10

“philosophical suicide” + “opiate”

Question 11

Barbour

Answer 11

“He should not let science dictate the usefulness of religion”

Question 12

Hawking

Answer 12

Dawkins cannot prove God doesn’t exist

Question 13

McGrath

Answer 13

Paley not representative of modern believers

Question 14

JH Newman

Answer 14

“suggesting a larger idea of divine providence”

Question 15

Frederick Temple

Answer 15

Unity of mankind- polygenism

Question 16

Mill+ Hambourger+ Law

Answer 16

Evil indicates weak creator+ Reduces nature to man-made+ Evil God challenge= design says nothing about nature of God

Question 17

Scholars supporting Paley

Answer 17

THATS PBPBNK
Tennant, Hawking, Aquinas, Temple, Swinburne
Paley, Behe, Penrose, Barbour, Newman, Kingsley

Question 18

Scholars countering Paley

Answer 18

HDDC MMHL
Hume, Darwin, Dawkins, Camus
Marx, Mill, Hambourger, Law

Question 19

Hume

Answer 19

WOCMU
Weak analogy
Order does not prove design
Christian God not necessary
More than one God
Unique universe- cannot compare