Title
'Hume, Fine-Tuning and the ‘Who Designed God?’ Objection
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2005
Abstract
The shadow of David Hume, the eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher, has loomed large against all efforts to prove the existence of God from evidence in the natural world. Indeed from Hume's day to ours, the vast majority of philosophical attacks against the rationality of theism have borne an unmistakable Humean aroma. The last forty years, however, have been marked by a resurgence in Christian theism among philosophers, and the time has come for a thorough reassessment of the case for natural theology. James F. Sennett and Douglas Groothuis have assembled a distinguished team of philosophers to engage the task: Terence Penelhum, Todd M. Furman, Keith Yandell, Garrett J. DeWeese, Joshua Rasmussen, James D. Madden, Robin Collins, Paul Copan, Victor Reppert, J. P. Moreland and R. Douglas Geivett. Together this team makes vigorous individual and cumulative arguments that set Hume's attacks in fresh perspective and that offer new insights into the value of teleological, cosmological and ontological arguments for God's existence.
Recommended Citation
Collins, Robin, "'Hume, Fine-Tuning and the ‘Who Designed God?’ Objection" (2005). Philosphy Educator Scholarship. 39.
https://mosaic.messiah.edu/phil_ed/39
Comments
Originally published as:
“Hume, Fine-Tuning and the ‘Who Designed God?’ Objection.” In In Defense of Natural Theology: A Post-Humean Assessment, James F. Sennett and Douglas Groothuis, eds., Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2005, pp. 175–99.