Design Argument
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- Created on: 09-04-15 17:02
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- Design Argument
- Overview
- A posteriori, inductive, synthetic
- Based off sense experience
- Infers the existence of God
- teleological derives from "telos" meaning order or purpose
- Early arguments
- Cicero saw the beauty in the skies and said it showed a God
- Plato thought that humans had been designed by a God
- The Bible made it theistic: "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth
- Aquinas' fifth way
- Saw that non rational beings move with purpose
- Argued that the world had beneficial order
- Beneficial order could not be chance so it must be God
- Paley's watch analogy
- Paley said that if you saw a watch you would know it was designed
- Watch an analogy for the universe
- design qua purpose
- Uses the idea that like effects infer like causes
- because the watch was designed, it infers the universe was
- Anthropic principle
- coined by Tennant
- idea that the universe is fine tuned for humans
- uses Darwin's theory of evolution to show it was God's guiding hand
- John Polkinghorne said any slight difference and we would not be here
- Freeman Dyson said the universe seemed to have planned for us coming
- Arthur Brown said that the ozone layer is "proof of the mighty creator's forethought"
- Aspects of design
- Beauty
- Tennant's aesthetic design argument
- beauty cannot be explained away by Darwinist ideas
- finishing touches of a designer on the universe
- order
- Swinburne's theory of regularities of succession
- the universe is so large that is could easily be chaotic but is ordered
- best scientific practice to look at the most simple explanation said Swinburne
- Science requires a larger leap of faith than God
- Beauty
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