David Hume (1711-1776)
Hume was an empiricist-meaning he believed that we can only rely on our sensory arguments to formulate
arguments.
Hume made his criticism of the design argument 23 years before Paley wrote his analogy of the watch.
Hume also criticized the cosmological argument
David Hume was uncomfortable with the reasoning behind the cosmological argument.
Hume had 4 major challenges:
Fallacy of composition: just because we observe cause and effect IN the universe does not mean
the rule applies to the universes itself.
We have no experience of creating the university therefore cannot talk meaningfully about that.
There is not enough evidence to say that the universe has a cause and definitely not enough to
make any conclusion as to what the cause may have been.
Even if god could be accepted as the cause of the universe, there is no way to determine the sort
of God he is and certainly no way of determining if it was the god of classical theism.,
David Hume’s criticisms of the teleological o Not a Christian God. Hume said
argument: that even if we can assume a
o Weak analogy-characteristics of creator, there’s no reason that this
purpose and design might be obvious has to be the Christian God. we do
in a watch but not in the world. Hume not know, looking at the world, if
thought it was not right to draw God is loving or all knowing, he
comparisons between the world and could have simply copied the idea
machines and use them as analogies from another God or accidently
Hume was an empiricist-meaning he believed that we can only rely on our sensory arguments to formulate
arguments.
Hume made his criticism of the design argument 23 years before Paley wrote his analogy of the watch.
Hume also criticized the cosmological argument
David Hume was uncomfortable with the reasoning behind the cosmological argument.
Hume had 4 major challenges:
Fallacy of composition: just because we observe cause and effect IN the universe does not mean
the rule applies to the universes itself.
We have no experience of creating the university therefore cannot talk meaningfully about that.
There is not enough evidence to say that the universe has a cause and definitely not enough to
make any conclusion as to what the cause may have been.
Even if god could be accepted as the cause of the universe, there is no way to determine the sort
of God he is and certainly no way of determining if it was the god of classical theism.,
David Hume’s criticisms of the teleological o Not a Christian God. Hume said
argument: that even if we can assume a
o Weak analogy-characteristics of creator, there’s no reason that this
purpose and design might be obvious has to be the Christian God. we do
in a watch but not in the world. Hume not know, looking at the world, if
thought it was not right to draw God is loving or all knowing, he
comparisons between the world and could have simply copied the idea
machines and use them as analogies from another God or accidently
