Design Argument Weaknesses Flashcards
1
Q
Charles Darwin ‘origin of species by means of natural selection’
A
There is too much suffering in the natural world for it to have been made by a kind and loving God
2
Q
Richard Dawkins
A
Universe designed by a series of chances
Design does not show purpose
‘We are grotesquely lucky to be here’ - channel 4 The root of evil - Dawkins
3
Q
Evil and Suffering
A
If God was the loving creator then he must be either limited in power or not on all loving.
Mill: ‘if the maker of the world can do all that he will, he wills misery and there is no escaping that conclusion’
4
Q
David Hume
A
Paley’s watch analogy unsound
No supreme designer would have created a universe with so much suffering. ‘The world is very faulty and imperfect… It is the work only of some inferior deity’
