PHL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Theism, Cosmological Argument, Expected Utility Hypothesis
6 May 2019
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Idea that the world we live in was once created. God show himself through the world around us. His power is invisible, but his work and creation of the world demonstrates it to us. Looking around shows us outputs of god. Like an artist, you cannot see in their minds but you can see their creation. The world we live in was made perfectly to suit us; god created the world to suit our needs. Paley"s watch - one day, you find a watch you"ve never seen before; it is unreasonable to believe that it was always existing - that it was never created and that it wasn"t made. Objections to the argument (1) we can"t conclude much about the nature of the designer. We don"t know if there is one or many creators, or if they have always been around.
