trivial and that of humans poor imagination. I will use Tim Holt’s “Philosophy of Religion” to show how believing in God is more logical than not. Russell uses a few arguments to try an disprove the existence of God in “Why I am not a Christian.” I will address the “First Cause Argument‚” the “Design Theory Argument‚” and the “Morality Argument.” I will touch briefly on what Russell believes and then use common and widely accepted theories to refute Russell. Russell uses many reasons to support his
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Explain Darwin’s theory of Evolution and how it presents arguments against design and a designer. (30) A01 To answer this question productively‚ I must first‚ of course‚ explain both Darwin’s theory of evolution and the Design or teleological argument (D.A). Both offer a fairly comprehensive explanation of how the world came to be what it is today. We will first start with the theory of evolution. Charles Robert Darwin‚ was born on the 12th of February 1809‚ and is the founder of evolutionary
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The design argument attempts to explain the existence of god through things we can see in the world around us. It is otherwise known as the “teleological argument”. “Telos” is the Greek word for purpose the teleological argument uses the idea of purpose‚ order and complexity which we can observe in the universe in order to explain and attempt to prove the existence of god. The design argument is an a prosteriori argument as it uses experience of the world which can be observed in order to reach
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exists. A point of difference between William Paley’s argument about the watch and his argument about organisms is that we have seen watchmakers‚ but have never seen God. I do not believe this point of difference weakens his design argument. The words “see” and “observe” are subjective.
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Hume’s Problem Of Induction In A Treatise of Human Nature‚ Hume challenges the traditional theories of causality‚ the idea that one can make an observation about two events and infer a new claim concerning the conjunction of the first event and the “resulting” second event. Instead of accepting this notion of causality‚ Hume questions the certainty of matters of fact and more specifically induction. Hume states there are two distinct types of knowledge: relations of ideas and matters of fact
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engage in a debate concerning this question and they all serve the purpose of supporting their views on the subject. It is the "argument from design" put forth by Cleanthes that is the focal point of the discussion‚ and it is Demea and Philo who attempt to discredit it. It is Cleanthes who gets the ball rolling in Part II of Hume by laying out his "argument from design." Cleanthes believes that there is ample evidence in the nature that surrounds us to draw conclusions on what God is like. Cleanthes
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They are repetitive in their statements to attempt to prove an idea that isn’t sufficient. While you study the objection of this argument you can easily refute it with different scenarios that question the reasoning behind it. Those who hold to this objection have misunderstood the argument of design in general. The premise for the argument of design is not that we observe the universe to be fit for habitation but rather that we seek to explain what we observe. I would think it is fair to
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Hume’s rejection of the metaphysic. Hume believed that statements like ‘The sun will rise tomorrow’ were the epitome of human egotism‚ of which no true answers could ever be found. The only ‘valid’ argument to support such a statement would be the inductive reasoning that the sun has risen before‚ hence it is very likely that the sun will rise tomorrow. But that argument in and of itself is simply epistemological and strays from the actual assertion. According to Hume‚ there are relational ideas and
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An argument from design is an argument that is close to the Teleological approach‚ which are arguments for the existence of God because of a general pattern and order in the universe‚ as opposed to arguments from providence‚ which are arguments from the provision of needs; of conscious beings. The teleological argument attempts to prove the existence of God by explaining that the world‚ in its seemingly perfect and ordered state could not have come about without the existence of a designer. The
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Hume asked‚ "what reason do we have in thinking the future will resemble the past?" It is reasonable to think that it will because there is no contradiction in supposing the future won’t resemble the past. But it is also true that is possible for the world to change dramatically and our previous experience would be completely useless in judging future experience. We want to say that past experiences have been a good predictor. We are compelled to do so and it is almost as if we can’t help ourselves
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