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I find Hume's attempt to cripple the design theory incredibly indecisive. He disagreed with someones point of view and instead of acting like a well educated adult and clearly stating he disagreed and explaining why he did little sneak attacks against the belief of God creating everything and never owned what he believed. He "chipped away at the foundation of belief by exposing weaknesses in various theistic arguments." He used cheap tactics to expose the flaws of what others believed in rather and did not even give them an alternate path. Basically Hume discreetly told every one that they were wrong, but did not back up his theories in any way. Which by the way Hume did not even allow his book Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion to be published until after his death.

Hume introduced many great points, that when completely thought out and explained can make perfect sense, but Hume did not completely think them through nor did he bother to explain his ideas to anyone else.

2007-09-07 13:20:58 · 3 answers · asked by nathen t 1 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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Hume's attempt to cripple the design theory was incredibly indecisive. He disagreed with someone's point of view and instead of simply disagreeing and explaining why he did, he utilized "sneak attacks" against the belief of God as the Creator and never stood his ground with what he believed. He chipped away at the foundation of belief by exposing weaknesses in various theistic arguments. He used cheap tactics to expose the flaws of what others believed in, rather and did not give them an alternate path. Hume discreetly told everyone that they were wrong, but did not back up his theories. Astoundingly, Hume did not allow his book Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion to be published until after his death.

Hume introduced many great points, that when articulated can make perfect sense, but Hume did not completely think them through nor did he bother to explain his ideas.

2007-09-07 13:33:17 · answer #1 · answered by Kirby 6 · 3 0

Hume's arguments aside, in terms of philosophy, truth and knowledge, it is critical to understand one's own motivations for wanting to believe in a theory of design -- or any other theory. The desire to believe that theory then creates a confirmation bias that will filter information from our perspective.

Most significant developments have come from not buying into the status quo, or just accepting spoon-fed information (introjection).

2007-09-07 21:03:57 · answer #2 · answered by guru 7 · 0 0

knock out 3 'ands' from the 2nd sentence.
4th sentence, start out with - "Using cheap tactics Hume basically told everyone they were wrong, exposed what he thought were their flaws but did not back up his own theories.
Hume did not allow his book, etc.
Knock "to anyone else" off last sentence.

Does that sound better? Less wordy & less repetition.
Good luck!

2007-09-07 20:41:54 · answer #3 · answered by Da Bomb 5 · 3 0

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