Based on obervation-key words Flashcards
Anthropic principle
combining evolution and the design argument (tennent)
Anesthetic principle
humans can do things that has nothing to do with evolution (tennent)
theism
a caring god
deism
a god that doesn’t care
cumulative selection
the explanation for the existence of life’s complex design
a posteriori
knowledge after experience
teleological argument
observed design or telos-motion cause necessity
cosmological argument
using the universe to explain the existence of god
infinite regress
chain of events leading backwards forever
aquinas 3 ways
un moved mover
first cause
necessity and contingency
contingent
depends on something else
necessary
doesn’t depend on anything else
design qua purpose
everything has a purpose designed by god
design qua regularity
laws designed by god
evolution/natural selection
creatures evolving and changing/developing-in survival and re-production of genotypes
epicurean hypothesis
given infinite particles and infinite time, order will form
fallacy of composition
what is observed about the parts cannot be pre assumed for the whole thing