Demea (duh-ME-uh), Philo (FILE-oh), and Cleanthes (klee-AN-thees) are its characters, and it attacks the argument from design and the cosmological argument.
This book discredits an analogy by stating that it is impossible to understand how a man grows by observing how hair grows. Darwin's Dangerous Idea cites this text's story about a world created by spiders to illustrate its author's view "A total suspense of judgment is here our only reasonable resource." A character in this text argues that the world is "nothing but one great machine, subdivided into an infinite number of lesser machines" to argue that a certain figure is an (*) "artisan." The twelfth and final part of this work discusses the problem of evil and the existence of natural disasters, and concludes that human morality must be separated from divine morality. Demea (duh-ME-uh), Philo (FILE-oh), and Cleanthes (klee-AN-thees) are its characters, and it attacks the argument from design and the cosmological argument. For 10 points, name this set of dialogues on the existence of God by David Hume.
This book discredits an analogy by stating that it is impossible to understand how a man grows by observing how hair grows.
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion