Quotes Philosophy Flashcards
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What is a quote from Psalm 104:14-19 that supports the design argument?
” Thou dost cause the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for man to cultivate. . . Thou hast made the moon to mark
the seasons, the sun knows its time for setting.” Psalms 104: 14-19
What did Swinburne say about the Design argument (1)?
“God being omnipotent is able to produce a world orderly in these respects. And he has a good reason to choose to do so; a world containing human persons is a good thing - God being perfectly good, is generous. He wants to share.” Richard Swinburne.
What is a quote said by Cicero (BC) that relates to the design argument?
“What could be more clear or obvious when we look up to the sky and contemplate
the heavens, than that there is some divinity of superior intelligence?”~Cicero (106-4 BC)
What did Socrates say that could be used to support the design argument?
“With such signs of forethought in the design of living creatures, can you doubt they are the work of choice or design?” Socrates (Pre-Christian Philosopher)
What is Paley’s quote from his book “Natural Theology”? (note *it’s the whole story but I’m highlighting the parts I think would be good to remember)
“In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there, */I might possibly answer, that anything I knew to the contrary it had lain there for ever; nor would it, perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer.* But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that for any thing I knew the watch might have always been there. Yet */why should not this answer serve for the watch as well as for the stone; why is it not as admissible in the second case as in the first?* For this reason, and for no other, namely, that */when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive what we could not discover in the stone that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose*, e.g. that they are so formed and adjusted as to produce motion, and that motion so regulated as to point out the hour of the day; that if the different parts had been differently shaped from what they are, or placed after any other manner or in any other order than that in which they are placed, either no motion at all would have been carried on in the machine, or none which would have answered the use that is now served by it…”
What is another quote from Swinburne to agree with the design argument and natural selection?
”The very success of science in showing us how deeply orderly the natural world is, provides grounds for believing that there is an even deeper cause of that order.” Richard Swinburne, The Existence of God.
What is another quote from Swinburne about the Design argument?
“to postulate a trillion, trillion other universes rather than one God in order to explain the orderliness of our universe, seems the height of irrationality.” Richard Swinburne.
What is a quote from Hume showing 1 of his arguments where they may have been more than one God creating the world?
“A great number of men join in building a house or ship, in rearing a city, in framing a commonwealth: why may not several Deities combine in contriving and framing a world?”
What is a quote from Hume criticising the Design argument?
“only the first rude essay of some infant deity, who afterward abandoned it, ashamed of his lame performance… it is the production of old age in some supernatural deity, and ever since his death has run on from the first impulse and active force which he gave it”. {David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, 1998).
What is a quote from Dawkins arguing against purpose when talking about the Design argument?
“Why is it necessary to have religious faith in order to find something important or significant in life?” - Richard Dawkins 2006
What does Dawkins say about the Design argument in “The Blind Watchmaker”?
“The ‘watchmaker’ that is cumulative natural selection is blind to the future blind to the future and has no long term goal.”
What did Russell say to Copleston when arguing against the cosmological argument?
“I should say that the universe is just there, and that is all.”
