1. Anthropic and Aesthetic Quiz
Which scholar first used the phrase anthropic principle?
Which two types of anthropic principle did he identify?
What were Tennant’s three pieces of evidence?
What are the two sections of the Aesthetic Principle?

2. Odd one out Purpose Chance Order Analogy Regularity
Write a paragraph to link all the words

3. Challenges to inductive arguments

4. (Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Paley, Tennant,
Inductive Argument
(Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Paley, Tennant,
William Lane Craig)
SCIENTIFIC
CHALLENGES
Evolution
Big Bang
PHILOSOPHICAL
CHALLENGES
Hume

5. David Hume (1700’s)
Criticised the arguments for God in his book: “Dialogues concerning natural religion”
Hume wrote in the form of a conversation between 3 characters

6. Basics Hume’s fundamental challenge:
Rather than trying to argue against it
He attempts to conclude it as unacceptable to believers
He does this by addressing the key points of the design theory

7. Hume’s characters: What are their names? Cleanthes Philo Demea
What are the opinions of each character?

8. Hume’s criticisms Topics to research Resources Empirical objections -
Critique of causes
Problems with analogies
Rejection of traditional theistic claims and the designer is not necessarily the God of Classical Theism
Apprentice, plurality and absent God.
20 and 19, 30 and 32
20/21 and 19
22 and 30
23 and 31
23 and 32
Red – booklet
Blue - textbook

9. Hume’s criticisms of inductive arguments
Empirical objections
Fallacy of composition
Critique of causes – contradiction
Hume’s criticisms of inductive arguments
Rejection of traditional theistic claims and the designer is not necessarily the God of Classical Theism
Problems with analogies
Apprentice, plurality and absent God.

10. The Epicurean Hypothesis – info on page 23
According to Hume:
At the time of creation the universe consisted of particles in random motion
The initial state of the forces were chaotic
However gradually over time they became ordered
Hume believed it was inevitable that an ordered state would develop
So the stability and sense of order of the universe it due to random particles coming together over time and not the work of a designer

11. Watch the video clip David Hume
What new information have you learnt about David Hume