Design arguments

What else can design arguments be known as?

• Teleological arguments

• Ontological arguments

• Cosmological arguments

• ARGUMENTS

Why did Hume create his design argument?

• for a bet

• to prove the universe was designed

• to disprove it

• because he was bored

Who were the three characters in Hume's dialogue on design arguments?

• Teresa, Boris, Rishi

• Scooby, Shaggy, Velma

• Kim, Kourtney, Khloe

• Philo, Cleanthes, Demea

Why does Hume reject the idea of the universe being like a machine?

• too many dissimilarities; the universe is more like a vegetable

• too many dissimilarities; the universe is more like a pizza

• He actually doesn't reject it.

• There's no trademark on the unvierse.

What is spatial disorder?

• the idea that the universe is more ordered than disordered

• the idea that the universe is more disordered than ordered

• the idea that the universe is perfect

• the idea that the universe was a mistake

Why is an argument from analogy always quite weak?

• any two things being compared will always have as many dissimilarities as similarities

• Nothing can be compared to anything else, ever

Why does Paley's argument escape the criticism of analogies?

• he's basing his argument on spatial order rather than comparisons

• he doesn't

In his design argument for God's existence Paley compares a watch to what?

• Rock music

• Fraggle Rock

• The Rock

• a rock

"Infinite time, finite matter" is a criticism of design arguments, why?

• God has taken an infinite amount of care in creating the universe

• more likely a finite amount of matter has arranged itself into the universe over an infinite time than there being a God

• The universe has existed infinitely

• haters gonna hate - the universe has been designed - deal with it

Swinburne doesn't claim his argument proves a God, but what..?

• a rational disembodied free agent with immense power and immense intelligence

• Ed Sheeran

• Horace Dennis

• The Rock