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CA Strengths and Weaknesses
- STRENGTHS
- Richard Swinburne: God
may just be the simplest
explanation.
- An a posteriori: based on evidence.
- The Big Bang Theory shows that there is a start.
- Scientists cannot show what caused the big bang so it could be God.
- WEAKNESSES
- David Hume and Bertrand Russell.
- Aquinas contradicts himself.
- Why does the prime mover have to be God?
- Principle of Entropy: everything
will eventually collapse and
decay.
- David Hume
- Argument begins with a
familiar concept but
moves on to something
that we cannot
understand.
- All particle matter can be destroyed
and anything can be altered
- Inconsistent not extend this to a deity
- Why should it be the God
of classical theism? Even if
we do believe in a necessary
being it does not have to
have the characteristics of
the classically theistic God.
- Bertrand Russell
- "Every man who exists
has a Mother, and it
seems to me that your
argument is that,
therefore the human race
must have a Mother, but
obviously the human race
hasn't a Mother - that's a
different logical sphere.
- Russell
Claims that
not everything
needs an
explanation -
'the universe is
a brute fcct'
- He does not
dismiss
completely the
quest for an
explanation.