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Updating the Design Argument

The key insight: If you can't survive you don't. So what is left is the stuff that can survive.

Biology Lecture: How does evolution work?

How is this a criticism of Paley's argument?

Which of the following are going to survive? Why?

1. A penguin with razor flippers

2. A giraffe with a short neck

3. An ape with a large brain

4. A fish with three eyes

Recap: Hume vs Paley

So Swinburne's Argument...

So Paley can't really win here, unless the argument changes a lot

Science can explain things in terms of the laws of physics. But it can't explain why those laws are as they are. And it can't explain temporal order.

Swinburne argues the best explanation is a designer.

What was Hume's most forceful criticism?

Life itself is not designed, but perhaps the conditions for life are.

What are the conditions for life?

Swinburne's argument

The Laws of Physics

What laws are there in Physics?

Swinburne draws a distinction between spatial order and temporal order.

Spatial Order = objects displaying order in how they are made up, eg human eyes

Spatial Order can be fully explained through evolution.

Temporal Order = the order of things following one after the other in a predictable way.

For instance, if I drop a pen, it will fall to the ground, always.

Temporal order makes the laws of physics possible.

Science, the Design Argument, and Swinburne

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