| A. The pockets of order that we see about us and which constitute our environment developed without any influence from outside from a soup of 'elementary particles' buzzing about, at an earlier stage of the Universe, in a state of complete disorder. | B. Natural selection produced the natural world as we see it today, but the process of natural selection cannot have got underway on its own: so the teleological argument in fact survives the Darwinian revolution. | ||
| C. The argument from design may work for the world as a whole but it doesn't work for stones or watches. | D. The argument from design assumes the existence of God | ||
There is no reason to think Hume would agree with D.
He would reject C because he thinks the argument for design is invalid.
He would reject B for the same reason.
So long as you don't interpret A as involving any necesary connexions, this looks like a reasonable articulation of Hume's position...
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