Edexcel - Philosophy Revision Bullet Summery's.

Design Argument

• Posteriori, inductive argument

• Suggests an intelligent designer with order and purpose

• Paley's Watch Analogy

• Swinburne - Universe works in a providential way

• Critics

• Relies on anthropomorphism characteristic

• Dawkins - Random chance?

• Evil and suffering contradicts.

Cosmological Argument

• Posteriori - based on empirical evidence

• Order and purpose

• God the explanation , first causer and necessary.  Kalam

• Chain and effect

• Augustines 5 ways

• Critics

• Why keep looking for a cause

• Illogical and holds no scientific evidence.

Ontological Argument

• Priori - proof reaching a logical argument

• Anselm ‘Than which nothing greater can be conceived’

• Perfect island analogy - Guanillio.

• God holds all perfections non contingent.

• Perfection is existence over non existence - Descartes

• Critics

• Incoherent can't be all knowing and all loving linking to inconsistent triad (Mackie)

• Distances god from humans

• No empirical evidence leading to a inductive leap

Problem of Evil and Suffering

• The rock of atheism

• Inconsistent triad

• Suffering maybe a test of true faith

• Suffering from the fall (adam…