Design Argument Flashcards
Mencion the 1st criticism of Pales argument.
We don’t know any thing about watchmaking we cant say that it was design or has a designer. If we have never had any experience we cant say that, unless we have had experience we can say wether or not the universe was designed.
What is the design argument about?
Arguments with specific details of the universe. How can we explain the qualities of the universe?.
As:
The order in the world, everything seems to have a purpose, living things appear to be constructed to fit the enviroment, the fact of life develop, concious beings.
Mencion the 2nd criticism of Pales argument.
Cannot compare the complexity of a machine with the complexity of the universe.
A watch has many designers so the world night have many gods.
Pales responde for the 1st criticism.
Does that means the watch doesnt have a design than?.
We can see design we can still draw to the conclusion it was design, therefore a designer.
Pales responde for the 2nd criticism.
Wether or not the watch has a flaw we can still draw to the conclusion that it has a designer, therefore a designer.
Swinbune 1st response.
There are 2 types of order in nature:
- Spatial: all the arrangement of the objects. (Paleys talks about this order, also darwinism).
Natural selection can explain this.
- Temporal: the laws of nature, science cant explain them. So there has to be a designer disembodied.
Swinburne 2nd response
Natural selection is best explained as a method God used to bring about moral, intelligent beings with a sense of wonder an beauty.
Anthopic Principle.
Swinburne 1st criticism
Science cannot YET explain the existence of laws of nature, this doesnt mean it wont or cant.
It would be wrong to bring God simply to explain a mystery.
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Swinburne 2nd criticism.
If natural selection is the method God used to bring the moral to humans, we cannot rationally infer that a moral being used a brutal method and seemingly amoral to bring out morality.
