Thanks Scott for the nice little article focusing on cosmology. Not that much relevant for discussing David Hume, a philosopher not an astronomer and cosmologic knowledge was very thin and speculative during Hume's time. ...

Hume suggested that maybe cause and effect are just the way we see things not necessarily linked. Even if God is the cause it does not tell us anything about God other than that he created. The premises do not allow of such a leap of ...

For instance, Hume pointed out that the cosmological argument is based on the unproven premise that effects follow cause, while the teleological argument at the most can prove that the great designer is an imperfect being. ...

Hume's Criticisms of the Cosmological Argument in Part IX of Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. (N.B. In reviewing Hume's criticisms, it's interesting that they anticipate, in rudimentary form, contemporary worries for the argument ...

[Cosmology on television - closely related to cosmetology?] I just watched a lecture given at UC Berkeley appropriately enough on April 1, 2010. It is titled "Particle Physics in the 21st Century". Professor Sivas Dimonopoulos is the ... The debate came down to the skeptical empiricist philosophy of David Hume versus the positivist philosophy of Kant, Leibniz, and Comte. For the past 90 years Hume has been kicking Leibniz' ass. So too, the question of multiple universes. ...