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Stewart Sutherland on Hume on Design

Philosophy Bites

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The Argument for an Infinitum God

Hume was quite devastating on this and if you want to look it up it's section five of the dialogues concerning natural religion. The strongest argument produces not a Christian God but something akin to a weak fallible human being like a clock maker. He says things like if you look at the elaborate constructions that human beings have made, they're usually made by teams of people not by individuals.

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