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arguments based on observation, Teleological argument, The cosmological…

- - - - without an archer giving an arrow direction it would stay in the quiver
    - - natural things flourish as they obey these laws
        
        things without intelligence cant direct themselves
        
        therefore something with intelligence must be guiding them toward their goals
  - - - if someone found a rock on the ground, they would not ask how the rock got there
      - but of someone found a watch they would assume a designer created it and thats how it came to be
      - this is because of the complexity of the watch,
      - the universe is complex and ordered, so the universe must have a designer
  - - - analogies are stronger the more alike the two things being compared are
      - in the case of the design argument - hume claims that the world and the watch are very unlike eachother
- - - - an acorn can turn into an oak
    - - a stick is potentially on fire and only becomes actually on firebwhen an actual flame is applied to it
  - - - hume attacks the principle of sufficient reason on which aquinas' third way is founded, the principle states that there should be a total explanation rather than a partial one for any phenomenon
    - - hume questions the reality of the 'whole' that people refer to, saying that 'whole' things are ususally created by arbitrary acts of the mind' -eg when we unite several countries into one kingdom, this has no influence on the nature of things. it is simply a human perception
- - - - random things can lead ti irder and comlex systems can be self arranging - this is the upshot of the nature of evolution
      - so there is no need to appeal to a divine intelligence to account for complexity and 'order' ' they arise natually from the processes of evolution and natural selection
    - - dawkins and atkins pointed out the profound suffering and cruelty in the processes of evolution
      - a female digger wasp lays her eggs in a caterpillar so that the larva can eat the inides as they grow. she also stings it to paralyse it so it is alive as they are eating it
    - - evolution challenges the aristotelian account of causation which includes telos or purpose as it shows that natural processes can be explained without the need to refer to a goal
  - - - analogies are stronger the more alike the two things being compared are
      - in the case of the design argument, hume claims that the world and the watch are very unlike eachother
      - the world is composed of organic and mineral matter, so it is not like a machine and more like an organism
    - - the analogy of a man made thing is bound to lead to the conclusion that the universe was designed
      - hume points out that we already have experience or knowledge of watches or houses being made, and so this just begs the question when it comes to the universe
      - analogy of a man madr thing also implies a human like god but this causes problems as god is meant to be infinite in his qualities
- - - - If any of the parts were shaped differently then the watch wouldn’t work. All parts are purposefully in the right order = by a designer
- - - - the world is so corrupt and faulty then the creator must be blind
    - - Why is god the designer
        
        Why just one god?
        
        Cannot guess that universe has a designer just because things within inverse may show design
        
        So much evil within the world why would a classical theistic gd crate such a world
        
        World is not a machine, the universe is more organic
    - - beginning of time particles in a random motion = chaotic
        
        evolved into an ordered system
        
        design has happened over time not from god
        
        thus fo hume design could happen at random and does not infer a designer