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Episode 167: Hume on Intelligent Design (Philosophize This! Crossover) (Part One)
Published 9 years, 3 months ago
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On David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779). How would a scientifically minded person argue for the existence of God?
In Hume's dialogue, a character named Cleanthes argues from this point of view for God's existence based on the complexity and order apparent in nature: It looks designed. But how good is that argument, and is it enough to prove an infinite God of the traditional sort? With guest Stephen West.