teleolgocial argument. Flashcards
aquinas.
- archer analogy there needs to be an intellegent being behind the bow or the arrow wont hit the target. intellegent being= god.
understanding comes form god.
paley.
find a stone and assume that it has been there or is meant to be there but if we were to find a watch we would assume that it was not supposed to be there and that it had a designer as it had a design and a function of telling the time.
if the watch was put together wrong then it would not fulfil its purpose.
similar to and eye has a purpose assume that its been designed.
critiques hume.
-more than one god watch has more than one creator
-interpreting order when it is not there eg cloud watching.
-weak analogy not enough similaritys between a human and a watch.
-we have no experiance world making. no one saw the world being made.
-we could be a serirs of trial and error.
-analogy makes god more human than devine.
mills critiques
-why make a world that could go wrong.
-benefactor limited humans go to jail for murder but when lions do it its survival no command over nature meaning benefactor is weak. red in tooth and claw.
-beleive in more than one god is comman does not prove the existanc eof the christian god.
dawkins- darwin.
fine tuning.
world seems to be created perfectally for human eixtance 5% closer to the sun and it would be too hot the laws of gravity ect world make for humans to flourish. purpose order and design..
type of argument.
-inductive based on experience of the world around us for order and regularity.
-aposteri relies on senses and experience of the universe order and beauty and complexity.
what does dyson say.
accidents of physics….. seemed to know that we were coming.
constance allows us to live.
ayre.
we dont know the difference between a designed universe and a undesigned universe we dont have enough experiacne.
watch analogy.
rock simple been there forever.
watch complex= explination.
specific material/ mulptul parts/motion/other parts wont work qualify the difference between simple and complex things.
argument from regularity. pallets second argument.
the watch works with mechanical movements and there is similar regularity in the universe with planets moving and rotating.
the watchmaker is responsible for the mechanical movements and he built the watch correctly and the creator of the universe is responsible for making the planets move by making them that way.
anthropic principle.
the universe id the perfection of its creationism.
-life is only possible due to its precise features.
-tennant says that the chance of these events happening by ‘‘pure chance is so low that there must be a helping hand.’’
-called the Goldilocks principle conditions of the creation of ht world were just right.
