... 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 never have allowed him ... arrived at over and above what can be independently and directly supported by empirical study of the universe. Such innocuous-sounding, even camouflaged assertions by Hume were in actuality a D-Day invasion on the Normandy Beach of the Deists. The first salvo is a statement of the terms of reference: ...

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... ivory towers, positing theories, which, while they may seem semantically and/or logically possible, seem a wholly unpractical way for anyone to regard life when they are living, as Hume says "away from their desk." Both George Berkeley and David Hume recognized the chasms between the worldview of these two classes, and both attempted to decipher with which group the truth lay. Berkeley and ... the reasons that Berkeley gives for his support of the vulgar is that the vulgar opinion coincides with common sense, a faculty far less elevated for him than it is for Hume. In Hume's philosophy,...

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