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Mind Map by Jordan Muggleton, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Jordan Muggleton
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Hume and Wiles Comparison
- Hume is Atheist, Wiles is Christian
- Hume assumes there is no
God able to violate natural
laws
- Wiles assumes
there is a God
that chooses
not to
intervene.
- Hume assumes there is no
God able to violate natural
laws
- Hume starts from Empiricism, Wiles starts from Christianity
- Hume assumes that the
religious believer is
required to believe in
miracles, and that since
miracles is the least
likely of all events,
religion is irrational
- Wiles starts from
Christian belief: God
can be understood
without his
requirement to be
active in the world
and violating it's
laws
- Hume assumes that the
religious believer is
required to believe in
miracles, and that since
miracles is the least
likely of all events,
religion is irrational
- Hume's approach is realist, Wiles approach is anti-realist
- Their view on recorded miracles
- Hume: Miracles recorded in
holy books (Bible) are literal
descriptions of false facts
- Wiles: Much of the Bible is
symbolic and mythological
- Hume: Miracles recorded in
holy books (Bible) are literal
descriptions of false facts
- Their view on miracles themselves
- Hume: focuses on
the evidence
available for a
miracle
- Wiles: Focuses
on whether
God's intention
can be expressed
- Hume: focuses on
the evidence
available for a
miracle
- Their view on recorded miracles
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