Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cosmological Argument

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 1020
• Professor: Dennis Klimchuk

Document Summary

A stone may be found there and a justifiable explanation it was always there, but the specifics of the watch show there must be a designer who made it with its intended purpose in mind). Cosmological argument, deals with how the world came to be and the cause behind it. Same structure and weaknesses (could be a or b, cannot be a so it must be b). The inference can only be strengthened if you found out the watch was made by another watch. Evolution provides the alternative that rather than the world being designed to sustain us and operate in the way it does but rather people and animals adapted in order to survive in the world. Paley: there are two possible explanation for how the world or a given part of it came to be, chance or design. It couldn"t be chance so it must be design.