Question
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]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Brown A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago C | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont A | Virginia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Imperial A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cornell A | Florida A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Harvard A | Cornell B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Houston A | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State A | South Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins A | NYU A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michigan A | Purdue A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Texas A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Northwestern A | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Duke A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn A | McGill A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rutgers A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Stanford A | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Toronto A | MIT A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| UC Berkeley A | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley B | Florida B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt A | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Penn State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |