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