Answer the following about the teleological argument for the existence of God, for 10 points each.
[10m] This clergyman’s 1802 book Natural Theology gives a form of the teleological argument based on the analogy of a watchmaker.
ANSWER: William Paley
[10e] Philo compares the teleological argument to the Brahmins’ assertion that the world was spun by an infinite spider in this philosopher’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.
ANSWER: David Hume [or David Home]
[10h] This British philosopher’s book The Existence of God says that God is the simplest explanation for a universe hospitable to complex life. In a 1968 paper, he argues, contra Hume, that historical evidence for miracles is possible.
ANSWER: Richard Swinburne [or Richard Granville Swinburne]
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