"God and the World" Talks about Teleological,Cosmological Arguments and the problem of causality in Ch.9 of Questions that Matter(SE).
Date Submitted: 12/23/2002 14:07:01
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 3 pages (812 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 3 pages (812 words)
In chapter 9, we read about natural theology and the two arguments for the existence of god. Those two arguments are The Cosmological Argument and The Teleological Argument.
In reading the chapter we define the difference between Natural Theology and Revealed Theology. Natural Theology is the study or science of god through natural intellect in its natural state, unaided by any special or supernatural input. It is also referred as rational theology. Revealed theology means knowledge …
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…concept of causality can not be legitimately extended beyond the objects of possible sense experience and therefore cannot be extended to god. They are saying that we cannot apply causality to things beyond our sensible world. Therefore because we cannot sense god, we have no rational right to describe what he is using the concept of causality. Because causality by its nature is a principle of sense experience and has no application beyond sense experience.
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