Hambourger's Argument For The Existence Of God Essay

Hambourger’s argument from design argues for the existence of god based on the perceived evidence of deliberate design in the world/universe. To further elaborate on the concepts he uses, Hambourger uses three main concepts; determinism, chance, and mere hap. Hambourger’s argument from design claims that though many things occur by chance, there are some things which we cannot simply accept to have happened by chance, and must therefore have some common explanation in the causal chain of events connecting the two events. For instance the universe is created by many states of affairs coming together. If some slight changes had occurred, the end result could have been vastly different than it currently is. He argues that this could not happen by chance because we think there must be a common explanation of their perception of being impressive, and provides an example of it.

It is supposed to represent, that though it is theoretically possible that the frost could have formed in exactly a way which we would then have perceived geometrically as consisting of a nativity scene, the complex actions by course of nature this would take, would actually lead us to believe the opposite of what it would imply, that it could not have occurred by chance. Another way of saying this is the fact that the ice formed in a certain pattern, and we perceive this pattern as being a nativity scene, we can conclude that they can be a part of each other’s causal chains, which Hambourger will state have a designer in common. Because of this, the conditions of the scene happening by chance have been violated, and so we must look for the common cause explanation or third party that is a part of both causal chains, which must be in this case a designer. If there is a designer, it can be said that it is so for two