Design Argument

The Design Argument

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• teleological
• telos - end or purpose
• a poteriori - from experience
• sythetic - from observation
• empirical - five senses
• inductive - many possible outcomes of which one is more probable

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• Design is present in the univers which suggests design which infers a designer
• David Hunt's Parable of the Shipwreck
• order, benefit, purpose, and suitability for life

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• Socrates
• "with such signs of forethought how can there be any doubt as to whether the univers is the product of chance or design"

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• Aquinas
• 5 ways - 5th way - 'from the governance of things'
• Design qua Regularity
• Arrow and the archer
• 'whatever lacks knowledge cannot move towards an end, unless it is directed by some being endowed with knowledge and intelligence... and this being we call God'

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• Paley
• Watch Analogy - Design qua Purpose
• 'when we come to inpect the watch we perceive... that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose'

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• Anthropic Principle - F.R.Tennant
• Goldilocks Effect of being 'just right'
• the univers is so 'finely-tuned'
• Weak Anthropic…