If the teleological argument is correct in saying that God created humans like a machine, then you would expect humans to be perfect creations, but we are not. Humans are flawed in many ways including the fact that we have extra organs, and that our skeletons are not created properly for the way we walk. Humans are not machines in any way, and the fact that we are not perfect machines is explained by the theory of evolution. Therefore the theory of evolution is proof against the teleological argument and that God is the creator of the human race and the earth. I feel that this argument fails to prove the existence of God.
How does Dawkins destroy the design argument in his opinion? Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and incredibly anti-theistic, he writes books and makes documentary’s spreading his words on why religion is unrealistic. Dawkins has come up with a theory on which he now believes the design argument to be completely unbelievable; he believes to of conquered it. He has decided that based on prior scientific knowledge there are a billion billion planets in the universe so the so even the completely random arising of the most simplistic forms of life (e.g. Single celled microorganisms and even just DNA) was so unlikely to come about that by chance it is most likely to come about on just one planet and a chemical model which can predict that life should come about spontaneously on one in a billion billion planets gives an agreeable explanation of the presence of life seeing as we do have evidence in our own existence.
In Notes from Underground, the narrator shows emotion from the beginning of the story. He begins by telling the readers “I’m… a mean man” (84). By describing himself as a mean man lets the reader know that he is capable of showing emotion. However, the emotion he portrays throughout the novella is always anger at the world because he never felt loved by anyone. The only way he can demonstrate his feelings is by being angry at the world and mean.
Pop Essay 6 Schools give a person the foundation to be a discerning thinker. Academic institutions encourage us to think outside the box however the advancement of technology is making us lazy. We are becoming more and more impatient in looking for answers. The advancement of technology as Neil Postman puts it is creating decadence in society. We are gradually becoming unable to know right from wrong and Postman believes that we are amusing ourselves to death because we do not even know why and refuse to ask why which Postman sees as a problem in society.
Their intention is all that matters. Kant focuses on what should be done, rather than doing things for their outcome. This means that even if something terrible happens as the result of a morally good action, it is still morally right. Kant had an absolute view that the right moral action must always be done. Kant tried to make moral ethics scientific through universalisation.
And I quote: Rare in individuals. But in groups, parties, nations and ages it is the rule. We call it madness. Gentleman, sir. No man thinks more highly than I do on the lack of sanity that derives our society.
Creon is compared to “a politician without the capacity to be a statesman, because he cannot resist the temptations of power” (Winnington-Ingram). Creon struggles with greed for money and lust for power. He is an unjust lawmaker as well as a strict and ruthless law enforcer. This causes the people of Thebes to live in fear of Creon. Creon asks Antigone if she attempted to bury her brother Polynices.
George Orwell uses metaphor, structure, and personification to show corruption of thought, establishing Winston's belief that society must resist the Party. Winston believes that he must take responsibility for his actions, illustrated through his metaphoric comparison of himself to a "monster" and belief that the world is "monstrous" (25). The monstrous world is the corrupt party, and
He is still irreversibly dissatisfied and unfulfilled with the liberal sentiments of Russia’s 19th century intelligentsia, but he is more profoundly dissatisfied by his own inability to escape or change it. In Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground the character torments himself with isolation and inaction. Yet, he halfheartedly rationalizes this aloofness by proclaiming his superior intelligence. How the Underground Man perceives himself and the reality of his condition can be elucidated for Dostoevsky’s readers through Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” Underground Man’s most egregious flaw is his over awareness and his consequent inability to act in fear of being judged and for fear of failing. He considers himself to be the enlightened thinker, walking above the ground, looking down in disdain at the ignorant masses living their meaningless lives.
He had spent his days looking for the answers to his own questions on chemistry and the archaic alchemy, reading the works of several scientists who “promised impossibilities and preformed nothing” (27). However, Victor was one of the scientists who promised the “impossible” and somehow managed to “perform” the task of reanimating lifeless objects. It shattered balance of life; it overthrew the position of God in the true order of the world. If humans could perform such heavenly tasks, was there really an all powerful God? As time progressed, man would learn the secrets of life and perhaps find tasks that even the gods were incapable of performing.