Edexcel - Philosophy Revision Bullet Summery's.
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Design Argument
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Posteriori, inductive argument
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Suggests an intelligent designer with order and purpose
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Paley's Watch Analogy
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Swinburne - Universe works in a providential way
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Critics
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Relies on anthropomorphism characteristic
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Dawkins - Random chance?
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Evil and suffering contradicts.
Cosmological Argument
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Posteriori - based on empirical evidence
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Order and purpose
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God the explanation , first causer and necessary. Kalam
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Chain and effect
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Augustines 5 ways
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Critics
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Why keep looking for a cause
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Illogical and holds no scientific evidence.
Ontological Argument
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Priori - proof reaching a logical argument
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Anselm ‘Than which nothing greater can be conceived’
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Perfect island analogy - Guanillio.
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God holds all perfections non contingent.
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Perfection is existence over non existence - Descartes
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Critics
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Incoherent can't be all knowing and all loving linking to inconsistent triad (Mackie)
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Distances god from humans
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No empirical evidence leading to a inductive leap
Problem of Evil and Suffering
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The rock of atheism
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Inconsistent triad
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Suffering maybe a test of true faith
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Suffering from the fall (adam…
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