Brian Davies in response to Hume’s objection to the cause of the universe being God: “Yet reason to suppose that order in the universe has acause outside the universe is reason to suppose that the cause of the order in the universe is powerful, purposive, and incorporeal. It needs to be powerful to achieve its effect. It has to be incorporeal since it lie soutside the universe. Since it is not a material thing, and since what it produces is order, we may suppose that it is able to act with intention. For order is naturally explained with reference to intention unless we have reason to suppose that it has been brought about by something material, i.e., something the effects of which are not the result of choice or planning on its part. So we are entitled to infer more than an order-producing being if, as design arguments claim, we are right to ascribe order in the universe to a cause outside it.” [Brian Davies, An Introduction to the Philosophy Religion, pg. 80].
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