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Question 1

What is thread 1?

Answer 1

Paley’s design argument
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God is not the the best explaination
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god could be using evolution
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Using evolution is not what God would have wanted

Question 2

What is thread 2?

Answer 2

Swinburne’s design argument
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It is an argument from a unique case
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Analogical reasoning + Scientists draw claims about the begining of the universe too
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The laws of science are not sufficiently similar to human-produced order + Scientists shouldn’t do this.

Question 3

What is Paley’s design argument?

Answer 3

• Nature itself has spacial order, this can only be so if it were designed by an inteligent being.
• So an intelligent being exists and created the universe.
• Nature is highly complex, so this complexity would require the being to be greatly intelligent and not a part of nature (as he created nature).
• Therefore God exists.

Question 4

What is God is not the best explaination?

Answer 4

Evolution explains order in nature better than God - GENIE -
- it is ontologically more simple
- it explains spacial order and disorder

Question 5

What is the problem of spacial disorder?

Answer 5

• The universe contains large amounts of spatial disorder. Things within space that aren’t arranged/ organised toward a purpose.
• Therefore, we can conclude that a flawed being created the universe, which doesn’t align with the idea of a perfect God

Question 6

God could be using evolution to bring about design

Answer 6

Evolution is a process that god has chosen in order to produce order. God is indirectly designing the universe, rather than designing it directly. This explains the existence of spatial order and disorder.

Question 7

God would not want to use evolution

Answer 7

Opponents of design arguments have argued here that evolution is not a process that would be chosen by God. It is wasteful, cruel, inefficient, and God is perfectly powerful enough to have made things the way they wanted things at the beginning.

Question 8

What is Swinburne’s design argument from temporal order

Answer 8

• The universe contains temporal order, there are two explainations for this, H1: scientific explaination H2: a personal explanation
• H1 fails because we can only understand temporal order in terms of more dundametal temporal order. Science can’t explain why they exist.
• H2: is supported by an analogical argument, human temporal order (like singing a song) has a personal explaination so it is likely that natural temporal order does too
• Because the whole world contains temporal order, the free intelligent being would need to be very intelligent, very powerful, and be disembodied,
• these are the attributes of God, so he exists and created the universe.

Question 9

Argument from a unique case

Answer 9

Design arguments rely on analogy
- you are able to know that songs have temporal order because you hear a new song, you know other songs were designed, so you infer this new song was designed
- However, the universe is a unique case, we have no other experience of other universes, and by definition there is only one it is a uni verse. (duh doy)

Question 10

What is Humes design argument?

Answer 10

• Human artefacts have spatial order.
• Nature itself also has spatial order
• Human artefacts have spatial order because they were designed by an intelligent being
• Similar effects have similar causes
• So it is logical to assume that Nature also has spatial order
• Nature is far more complex than any possible human artefact so would require a being significantly smarter than a human
• This would be a God, so God exists, and created the universe.

Question 11

What is Hume’s objection to “his” design argument?

Answer 11

Similarities between nature and artefacts do support the idea of a designer, but differences would weaken that
- Human artefacts are not livng while nature is
- Human artefacts are not self sustaining while nature is
- Human artefacts all have clear purpose, but nature as a whole doesn’t
So it is no longer reasonable to conclude it has a designer.