The corresponding theological premise was deism, as evolutionary theory had yet to provide the excuse needed to make atheism intellectually possible.As Hume puts it: "Man is a reasonable being, and, as such, receives from science his proper food and nourishment." ![]() Hume was of course a child of the Enlightenment, that period when it was first thought that man might be able to perfect and improve himself and the world through applied reason and science. Lewis' Miracles to the more recent In Defense of Miracles collection of essays), our comments about Hume shall be brief. Since so much has been written addressing Hume's views that we could certainly not supersede (ranging from C. ![]() Arguments against the miraculous have not progressed a great deal since Hume, although skill and rewording his verbiage into different forms abounds. If that means, much of what Hume says is repeated practically verbatim by today's Skeptics, that is quite correct. David Hume is said to have set the foundation for much of what passes as Skeptical thought these days.
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