God Existence Flashcards
Design (def)
It is more plausible to suggest that the order we find in the universe came to be by design, then by chance
Paley
1. Anything that has parts organised to serve a purpose is designed /// 2. Some things in nature have this quality /// 3. Therefore some things are designed /// 4. Designed implies designer /// 5. Designer must have it be a mind /// 6. Therefore there exists something distinct from nature which is a mind and who designed it
Hume
(Objections and Why fail?)
- Analogy disproportional, universe unique so can’t infer a cause without several experiences /// inference is from order to design, system is irrelevant and analogy is Existence property “complexity ordered” not “watch is like universe”
@@@@@ 2. Chance is better, infinite time finite matter, all combinations/// Big Bang, matter seems to behave in ordered way@@@@ 3. Designer adds to the problem, not simpler /// we do this all the time in science, quarks
Evolution
Main argument against spacial order// mutations take place, less fit disappear leaving to trace mistakes, nature experimentation, complex arises after huge number of failures, leading appearance of design, simpler explanation
Swinburne temporal order, what justifies laws of nature?
An orderliness in a way one thing follows another/// Science uses fundamental laws, can’t explain them. Can be explained in personal terms
Swinburne types of explanation
Scientific.// personal - someone’s purposes to justify an action
Swinburne standard
1.some temp. reg. can be explained in terms of persons // 2. Others exist which are similar /// 3. Like nature/// 4. No scientific/// 5. Only two types /// 6. Person best explanation /// 7.therefore terms of designer simpler, exists
Hume multiverse
Multiple laws of nature, this sticked. Simpler, we know of universes but not of designer. Aldos if designer is god, then evidence against
