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Richard Hare

Richard Hare

Produced the idea of Bliks.  Bliks are approaches to life that have meaning for those experiencing them…. He produces an example of a paranoid student that think his teachers are ‘out to Full Article

Reading from the Wrong Page

A chap called Flew decided to expand on this parable and introduce the Falsification Principle.  This is that the hypothesis needs testing to find whether, like the Verification Principle, it can be Full Article

A Matter Of Perpective: The Parable Of The Gardener

A Matter Of Perpective: The Parable Of The Gardener

John Wisdom came up with the Parable of the Gardener to highlight the different point of view between religious believers and non-believers.  The parable goes something like this: Two people take a Full Article

True or False?

Kant compared the universe to a vegetable? False:  Hume compared the universe to a vegetable. Irenaeus said that evil was down to humanity’s original sin False:  Original sin as the cause of Full Article

The Argument

The Argument

The Design Argument Teleological: Comes from the Greek telos, end or goal. Interpreted as meaning that things don’t develop by chance but has a purpose. Examples of aposreriori and Full Article

Function & Purpose

Aristotle observed that ducks have webbed feet, so that they can swim better Everything has a function: This is fact about the nature of things Thomas Aquinas went further Only an intelligence could Full Article

Galapagos Finches

These Finches all have different beaks that are adapted to the kind of food they eat. Why are their beaks like that? It’s all part of God’s great plan.  He has a purpose for everything Full Article

The Best Explanation

Design arguments may be from analogy or they may be inferences to the best explanation.  An example of the latter is the intelligent design theory.  It has been said that this theory is not Full Article

The Designed Universe

FR Tennent pionts out that human life is only possible because the universe has exactly the right characteristics for us to exist.  This is sometimes the anthropic principle from the Greek word for Full Article

A Modern Design Argument

Michael Behe, a modern scientist, suggests that evolution does not provide a full account of life.  Instead he proposes the concept of intelligent design, which is based upon the irreducible Full Article

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