This is Philosophy Chapters 3
In Paley's presentation of the Argument from Design, he argued that the universe is analogous to a
a watch
One reason to suppose that even moral evils are really God's fault is
if free will leads to eternal hell God is a dick
St. Anselm of Canterbury argued that
if you can't conceive of a more perfect concept, then God is real (ontological argument)
The stock market prediction scam
if you send out stock predictions to 10,000 people and kept cutting it in half, you'd end with 10 people who predicted correct 10 times!
Atheists
reject god
If the historical claims in an ancient text are verified by modern archeology and historiography, then
religious claims are probably true
Paley argues that if you found a watch in the woods
you would implicitly know it was created by someone
One objection to the CosmologicalArgument is that
why does it have to be God who caused the universe
Problem of the Attributes for the Cosmological Argument is
why does it have to be God who caused the universe
A defender of the problem of evil argument can concede that moral evils are the result of people freely choosing to act immorally but still ask
why doesn't god intervene/
Agnostics
withhold judgement about God
If you assume that a religious scripture is divinely inspired, then
you believe it is infallible and God exists
According to Kant, the problem with the Ontological Argument is that it treats existence as a property. This is a mistake because
you can't have a girlfriend that doesn't exist.
Gaunilo objected "on behalf of the fool" is that
you could imagine the most perfect island
According to the problem of evil,
God can't exist since there is so much evil in the world
The free will defense against the problem of evil maintains that
God is not to blame for stupid hoomans
Pascal claimed that
Gods existence is 50-50
Pascal argued that
If God exist, you win. If he doesn't, you lose big time
An objection to Pascal's Wager is that
It's not 50-50 whether God exists. There could be many many gods to bet on
Another objection to the Cosmological Argument is that
Some things come into existence fro no reason and are random
According to the argument from religious pluralism,
There are so many gods that all of them might as well be myths
The distinction between moral and natural evils is designed to show that
There are two types of evils
An objection to the Design Argument is
There doesn't have to be only one designer
If faith is no more than belief without evidence or reasons, then
anything can be faith
In the Cosmological Argument,
everything is caused by something so universe is too
Pascal recognizes that it is difficult to voluntarily start believing in something merelybecause it is in your self-interest. So he recommends that you
fake it til you make it
In the classical tradition of natural theology, God is a being who is
omniscient, omnipotent, omnibelevelont
According to Paley
the univese is so complex someone had to design it
