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Hume's Arguments Against Design, people are religious because they are…

- - - - God is quantifiably better than us and does things on a much bigger scale than us.
- - - - Building a world that it is faulty and imperfect so how can we believe that God is perfect
        
        "This world, for aught he knows, is very faulty and imperfect, compared to a superior standard; and was only the first rude essay of some infant diety who afterwards abandoned it, ashamed of his lame performance" (Hume, Ch 5)
        
        "for supposing him free from every error, mistake, or incoherence, in his undertakings. There may be inexplicable difficulties in the works of nature which, if we allow a perfect author to be proved a priori, are easily solved and become only seeming difficulties from the narrow capacity of man, who cannot trace infinite relations" (Hume, Ch 5)
        
        We know from experience that the world is not perfect, therefore we cannot expect God to be perfect
      - Philo
  - - - The work of God cannot be compared to the work of man
        
        Philo
        
        "Stone, wood, brick, iron, brass, have not, at this time, in hits minute globe of earth, an order or arrangement without human art and contrivance; therefore, the universe could not originally attain its order and arrangement without something similar to human art. But it is part of nature a rile for another part very wide of the former?" (Hume, Ch 2)
      - "there is no need of having recourse to that affected skepticism, so displeasing to you, in order to come at this determination. Our ideas reach no farther than our experience: We have no experience of divine attributes and operations" (Hume, Ch 2)
      - Making these comparisons make the analogies worse
  - - - because a house is built by many people that God (or many gods) can build a universe in the same way
      - Philo
    - - Philo
- - - - Projecting human traits onto God means that God is more like a human body/heart and soul rather than the creator of a perfect universe
        
        "if we survey the universe, so far it falls under our knowledge, it bears resemblance to an animal or organized body, and seems actuated with a like principle of life and motion." (Hume, Ch 6)
        
        God is more similar to the spirit of an animal because he is not able to create a perfect universe. An animal cannot be the creator of a perfect universe, so an animal is no different than God
- - - - Hume does not believe in miracles because there is more proof in experiences than there is proof of a miracle possibly happening