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" One use of the argument from analogy is found in
response to the question of what or who created the universe.
Some have argued that because the universe is like
a clock, there must be a Clockmaker. As the eighteenthcentury
British empiricist David Hume pointed out, this is
a slippery argument, because there is nothing that is really
perfectly analogous to the universe as a whole, unless it’s another
universe, so we shouldn’t try to pass off anything that
is just a part of this universe. Why a clock anyhow? Hume
asks. Why not say the universe is analogous to a kangaroo?
After all, both are organically interconnected systems. But
the kangaroo analogy would lead to a very different conclusion
about the origin of the universe: namely, that it was
born of another universe after that universe had sex with a
third universe. "

Thomas Cathcart , Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes


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Thomas Cathcart quote : One use of the argument from analogy is found in<br />response to the question of what or who created the universe.<br />Some have argued that because the universe is like<br />a clock, there must be a Clockmaker. As the eighteenthcentury<br />British empiricist David Hume pointed out, this is<br />a slippery argument, because there is nothing that is really<br />perfectly analogous to the universe as a whole, unless it’s another<br />universe, so we shouldn’t try to pass off anything that<br />is just a part of this universe. Why a clock anyhow? Hume<br />asks. Why not say the universe is analogous to a kangaroo?<br />After all, both are organically interconnected systems. But<br />the kangaroo analogy would lead to a very different conclusion<br />about the origin of the universe: namely, that it was<br />born of another universe after that universe had sex with a<br />third universe.