Below is a brief outline of David Hume’s criticisms of the teleological argument found in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion] and responses to them.

1. The argument doesn’t get us to God, at most it just gets to a designer.
   1. This is not arguing for God, just an extremely intelligent mind, which exists apart from the universe.
   2. Constructive empiricism[1]
2. You can only use analogy to argue for things that are similar, but the universe is unique.
   1. As long as the two things being compared are relevantly similar in the properties under consideration, they can be analogized.  Everything is unique in some way; however, we can still compare things where they are similar.  The universe is not unique in all its properties for it shares some properties with other things (design).
3. You can only use analogy about things you have empirically experienced, but no one experienced the origin of the universe.
   1. Scientists infer the existence and operations of empirically inexperienced entities on the basis of analogizing from what they do know from experience (i.e. particles)
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