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God of classic theism > cause than needed for design

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world is flawed
flawed world = flawed designer
couldve been lesser / inexperienced / team / senile

2
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existence of evil is v powerful argument vs God’s omni traits ( God Paley argues for)

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evil : on cosmic scale - supernova explosions large enough to wipe out civilisation if close to humans
-hard 2 accept + move on w/ massive evil in world despite existence of ‘God’

3
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Hume : Universe = vegetable > machine bc it grows itself ( evolution ) w/o need for creator // backed by TOE

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evolution : shows that nature designs itself w/o need for a GOD

  • Richard Dawkins : watchmaker = evolution > God / evolution = indifferent to our opinions abt such matters like stars etc etc
  • universe has no designer , plan , purpose
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Hume : no experience in universe making / all our ideas abt creation + UM = anthropomorphic

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  • we lift own litd. human experience + impose on the universe ( despite our inexperience in said field)
  • design in minds > not in world
5
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if nature can design self ( + support from TOE ) , hume = probably right in claiming wolrd can design self

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multiverse theory : may be correct so many universes may appear ordered ( like ours ) but are not !