David Hume's Teleological Argument

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David Hume is a an empiricist (knowledge is gained from sense experience)which has play’s a heavy role in his work. His views are made apparent in his work Dialogues where he raises a series of devastating objections to the teleological argument. One of his objections is that there is a lack of evidential basis. The problem Hume is trying to address in this objection is that there is no pattern of correlation between universes and designers that has been observed. This leads to a lack of evidence for the argument in regards to the best explanation claim. This argument is successful because Humes brings up the point that we assume “things” are constant like gravity. However, if those “things” change we make and inference and change our perception