The argument from design was criticized by the Scottish philosopher David Hume in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779).
Try David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion for an Enlightenment reworking of the philosophical talking shop or Aristophanes' The Clouds for a very different - and much funnier - eyewitness account of Socrates.
Except for an occasional reversion to the dialogue form, as in Berkeley's Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (1713) and in Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779), it consisted of inquiries, discourses, treatises, dissertations, and essays, generally well written in clear, relatively nontechnical prose.
Galileo felt empowered to begin work on his Dialogues concerning the Two Great World Systems.
Dialogues concerning their pedagogical significance - for the teacher and the researcher - are discussed alongside the footage itself.
Hume clearly has Clarke in mind in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, where Demea recites the argument a priori and both Cleanthes and Philo offer critiques.
Before his death in 1776, he arranged for the posthumous publication of his most controversial work, the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, and composed a brief autobiography, "My Own Life".
More essays, the Political Discourses, appeared in 1752, and Hume's correspondence reveals that a draft of the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion was also underway at this time.
The argument of this manuscript will turn up 17 years later as day Four of Galileo's Dialogues concerning the Two Chief World Systems.
In his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779), he analyzes and refutes all of the main arguments of the day for the existence of God.
