ARTICLE SUMMARY

Peter Murphy's article, “Deism and Atheism”



Peter Murphy's article, “Deism and Atheism”

Introduction

The article that has been chosen for the Rebuttal is Deism and Atheism written by Peter Murphy. This article was about the nature, creation, accident to nature or eternal to nature. The article was unable to sustain Deism over Atheism. The author has used bad logic as well as analogies and rhetorical appeal with respective to emotions. Though the young researcher can spot out the deficiencies to the degree which I think how the Deism web publishers can pass on to it with the statement of outstanding in optimistic sense. I was so much eager that Peter Murphy which provide a good comparison between Deism and Atheism but I was disappointed while reading the article and I do not agree what stated by Peter Murphy.

Discussion

The main analogy of Murphy was nature as a painting and nature exploration by science is same as studying the paints and canvas. This is clear-cut but to be sure canvas & paints are also a part of, thus studying these things means studying a nature. Nevertheless, Murphy assert that “it is not too far a leap” which means that a painting has a creator known as painter, hence then there should be a creator for nature as well (Murphy, 2012).

Disappointingly, the work used by Murphy's “LEAP” is entirely not justified. If two things having similar characteristics or one can identify certain characteristics which share common attributes like painting and nature does not means that this concept will apply to other things as well and would be equivalent in each attributes. Taking an example of grapes as an analogy for oranges and make their comparison in terms of seeds, skin, luscious and so on, but this does not means that if ...