Existence Of God (Mrs Gould)

Question 1

What did William Paley theorise about the world?

Answer 1

William Paley said if a watch needs a watchmaker then a world must have a world maker

Question 2

Support for the design argument 1?

Answer 2

The heavens declare the glory of god, the skies proclaim the work of his hands (Psalms)” shows that god can be known through the natural world around us, which he has created.

Question 3

Support for the design argument 2?

Answer 3

FR Tennant “The world has been fine tuned for human life to develop” e.g distance from the sun, gravity and expansion rate of the big bang

Question 4

State some Non-Christian support for the design argument?

Answer 4

Complexity of the human eye, whuch fulfills a purpose (sight)

Question 5

State both of David Humes Criticisms of the design argument?

Answer 5

The world is more like a vegetable than a machine, Hume uses his ‘shipbuilder analogy’ to argue that if it takes many men to make a ship, surely it would take many gods to make a world ‘why not many gods’

Question 6

State The scientific criticisms of the design argument?

Answer 6

Evolution shows that the world was not designed for us, we adapted to it.

Question 7

State another of David Humes criticisms of the design argument?

Answer 7

David Hume argues that flaws in the design e.g natural disasters mean the designer is a trainee/ senile god…not the omnipotent/ omnibenevolent God of Theism