Analysis of David Humes Writing :: Empiricists, Empiricism

I was from the beginning scandalised, I must own, with this resemblance between the Deity and human creatures.--Philo David Hume wrote frequently about the subject of religion, much of it negative. In this paper we shall attempt to follow Humes arguments against deism as Someone knowable from the wake He allegedly makes as He passes. This kind of Deism he lays to rest. Then, digging deeper, we shall try our hand at a critique of his critique of religion, of resurrecting a natural belief in God. Finally, if theres anything Hume would like to say as a final rejoinder, we shall let him have his last word and call the matter closed.To allege the occurrence of order in creation, purpose in its theatrical role parts and in its constituted whole, regularity in the meter of its rhythm and syncopations, and mindful structure in the design and construction of Nature is by farther the most widely used and generally accepted ground for launching from the world belief in an intelligent and om nipotent designer god. One does non have to read for very long to find some modern intellectual involved in the analysis of some part of Nature experience to the Aha that theres a power at work imposing order, design, structure and purpose in creation. Modern religious piety salivates at the prospect of converting scientists and will constrict them any way it can. From Plato to Planck the problematic lion of religion must be rendered safe and tame. Religion must be reasonable, after all, we are reasonable men. wiz writes that the scientists religious feeling takes the form of rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the magisterial thinking and playacting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. We have been struck dumb, however we can no longer be incautious with such temptations to believe, with such sirens sounding for sensible, systematic sureness. The Design Argument has been mortally wounded by David Hume. The god arrived at by arguments on the one-way street of effect to the cause is dead we should neer have allowed him to live. In Section XI of the Enquiry, and throughout the Dialogues Hume subjects the Argument from Design to searching and searing philosophical analysis, to the point in his mind that it is forever dead, and to the point in our minds that we wonder why the world has not yet received the obituary.