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Topic 1B: Belief, uncertainty andunbelief (Cosmological Argument…

- - - - therefore it needs a cause
  - - - it is based can factors which we can observe and verify
      - objects have causes and the universe did begin
  - - - causality may be something imposed on the mind by experience
      - it is not truly real
      - it can only apply to things we can experience
      - this doesn't include the creation of the universe
    - - this cause isn't necessarily God
        
        omni God
    - - Anthropic principle
        
        infinite possibilities
      - Bertrand Russel: the universe may be infinite and like a God, un-caused.
- - - - William Paley
      - Made an analogy that the earth was like a watch
      - if you examined a watch, you wouldn't assumed that it's part didn't come together by chance
      - Like a watch the world is ordered so couldn't have come together by chance
      - this means that the world, like a watch, needs a designer
      - this designer is GOD
    - - the fundamental constants of our world, i.e gravity, are tuned to a fine degree of acuracy
      - if these numbers were altered even by a minuscule amount, no life of any kind could exist
      - Possible reasons
        
        Necessity
        
        these values have to be life permitting
        
        this is in-plausible because nothing has to be, there is no evidence to show this
        
        Chance
        
        Did we just get ridiculously lucky?
        
        the probabilities are so unlikely that they go beyond chance
        
        Or maybe there are infinite possibilities?
        
        Creator
        
        the numbers are so precise that they must have been set that way
        
        they were set this way by a creator or designer
        
        this creator is GOD