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What is an inductive argument?
An argument based on empirical evidence
What is a posteriori knowledge
Knowledge gained after sense experience
What is a priori knowledge?
Knowledge gained before sense experience
What is anthropomorphism?
Attributing human qualities to a non human being
What is the Epicurean hypothesis?
Atoms overtime naturally became ordered - this was inevitable
Explain Hume's argument to design
Humans don't have enough knowledge to conclude there is only one designer or any designer at all
What three observations of the world does Paley make to argue for the existencce of a designer?
order, complexity, purpose
What is the name of Paley's book
Natural theology
Who argued 'simplicity is always evidence for the truth' and how does it support the DA
Swinburne - God as designer is the simplest answer
What does the multiverse theory suggest?
optimal living conditions may exist in the futur
What is design qua regularity - with an exampl!
Observation of regularity in the universe e.g. orbit of planet
Define telos
end gaol/purpose
What did Hume say we should compare the universeto?
A vegetable
What is an empricist?
Someone who accepts evidence experienced througb senses
One criticism of the design argument
Problem of evil
What is the fine tuning argument?
universe could have only occurred with the intervention of an intelligence
