SCHOLARS god's existence Flashcards
Aquinas
5 ways
David Hume
Fallacy of Composition - just because we observe a relationship of cause and effect in our world, does not mean it is necessarily the same for everything else
Kant
we cannot predicate god’s existence - it is speculation that god is a logical necessity
William Paley
watch analogy, design qua purpose
astronomy, gravity, newton’s laws of motion, routine and regularity in the universe- design qua regularity
Socrates
with such signs of forethought in the design of living creatures, can you doubt that they are the work or choice of design?
Cicero
what could be more clear or obvious when we look up to the sky and contemplate the heavens, than that there is some divinity or superior intelligence?
Dawkins
in the blind watchmaker ‘no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference’
Hume
why is god the designer
why only one god
just because things in the universe show design it does not mean that the universe itself has a designer
too much evil in the world
the world is organic, not machine like
epicurean hypothesis
at the beginning of time, particles were in chaotic, random motion, and evolved into an ordered system over time. ‘design’ could have happened at random, by chance
darwinism
origin of species- chance mutations over the years, natural selection
stephen fry
unnecessary evil of bone cancer in children
F.R Tennant
God could have planned for evolution
Humans appreciate things that are not necessary for survival like music and art so we are much more than just survival machines
Anselm
God is that than which nothing greater can be conceived
Descartes
God is a supremely perfect being
Gaunilo
On Behalf of the Fool- the existence of a perfect island etc
