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.