PHL 709 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Infinite Regress
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From nature you can infer how god was like o o. Similar to how you read shakespeare s works and determine what type of person he is. There is a purpose of things in the order it is in. Even if you never meet the overseer things occur for a reason. Someone made the watch o o o o o o. The universe is dis analogous to human artifacts in. Universe is more complex and larger than the watch. Hume just says that the maker of the universe must be even more complicated. Why assume that god is good as there is so much suffering in life. Is the universe made by one god or several gods. O2a1 we can t conclude much about the nature of the designer hume. All arguments from design merely displace the problem of design. Infinite regress of intelligent designers infinite gods that made god.