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On Hume & Intelligent Design

Jan 26, 2012 20:08

As some of you may know, pierot is currently doing a theology degree, and as such there tend to be theology text books around the house, and I've been periodically reading them. And they are really interesting ( Read more... )

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Hume mentions... wraithwitch January 26 2012, 20:37:08 UTC

...Insane infant deities?
Damnit, missed that.

Re: Hume mentions... annwfyn January 26 2012, 20:47:10 UTC

I may be paraphrasing a little. He argues that even if the complexity of the universe proves that there is a god, there is no proof offered that that god is a Judeo-Christian deity and could, instead, by any one of a number of other options. And then he gives some of the other options which, actually, are almost all more interesting than the standard Judeo-Christian god.

Tis in Dialogues somewhere, if you're feeling like poking through it all.

Re: Hume mentions... wraithwitch January 26 2012, 20:58:10 UTC

And there I was thinking I'd missed Hume mentioning some kinda proto-HPLovecraft-Azathoth =P

If I stay at the Oast any longer I shall look it up as that volume is certainly on the shelves...

Re: Hume mentions... annwfyn January 26 2012, 21:02:29 UTC

He might have done. But I think I missed that bit. He did talk about deities creating the world and then getting bored and buggering off (my reading of Hume is a mix of skim reading, dipping in and out, and reading analyses of his work by other people, so I'm being a bit sketchy here!)

If he did pre-figure Cthulhu by over 100 years I will definitely build a small creepy shrine to him.

Re: Hume mentions... wraithwitch January 26 2012, 21:11:33 UTC

Ooh, maybe HPLovecraft read Hume and just took his ideas a little further? (and by little further I mean twisted them round a corner 'til the broke...)

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