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A 3 page essay that examines David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, in which Hume pictures three speakers arguing over whether or not it can be proven that God exists. The writer examines the cosmological argument for the existence of God as Hume presents it in part IV. No additional sources cited.
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conventional religion; Cleanthes, who is a scholarly theologian, but influenced by Newtonian science and also by deistic beliefs; and the third speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic. In Part IV
of Humes Dialogues, Cleanthes and Philo discuss the cosmological argument for Gods existence. A cosmological argument for the existence of God deals with the universe as a causal result. Basically,
if everything in reality is the result of a long chain of cause and effect, then, it is logical to suggest that at the very beginning of time, there was
a primal "cause," which began the entire chain of existence. The cosmological argument pictures God as that cause. The standard argument presents the universe as far too complex not have
happened by coincidence or accident, but rather the very complexity of the universe attests to the work of a designer, i.e. God. This writer/tutor is somewhat confused by
the request of the student researching this topic to discuss two of Cleanthes criticism of the cosmological argument in Part IV because it seems to me that it is Philo
who is criticizing this stance. Part IV opens with Cleanthes disagreeing with Demea over his "mystical" view of God. About halfway through this section, Philo breaks into the conversation
with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argument), than the order of the universe is no
clearer than it would be if there were no God. Cleanthes expresses the opinion that Philo is objecting to the cosmological argument on the basis that God cannot be considered
to be the ultimate cause because this does not explain the workings of the universe. In other words, Philo argues that regarding God as the ultimate cause does not answer
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