Teleological
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- Created on: 10-05-16 19:49
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- Teleological
- key words - telos, design qua regularity, design qua purpose.
- Aquinas
- When you look at the natural world you can see everything in it follows natural laws, even if the things are not concious, thinking beings
- If things follow natural law they tend to do well and have some goal or purpose
- However, if a thing cannot think for itself it does not have any goal or purpose unless it is directed by something that thinks
- Everything in the natural world that does not think for itself heads towards its goal or purpose because it is directed by something that does think
- This something is what we call God
- an arrow can only be directed to its goal by an archer
- Everything in the natural world that does not think for itself heads towards its goal or purpose because it is directed by something that does think
- However, if a thing cannot think for itself it does not have any goal or purpose unless it is directed by something that thinks
- If things follow natural law they tend to do well and have some goal or purpose
- design qua regularity
- When you look at the natural world you can see everything in it follows natural laws, even if the things are not concious, thinking beings
- Paley
- second part - design qua regularity
- the rotation of the planets in the solar system, and how they obey the same universal laws and hold their orbits because of gravity
- this could not have come about by chance
- an external agent must have imposed order on the universe as a whole, and on its many parts
- this agent must be God
- an external agent must have imposed order on the universe as a whole, and on its many parts
- this could not have come about by chance
- the rotation of the planets in the solar system, and how they obey the same universal laws and hold their orbits because of gravity
- second part - design qua regularity
- Hume
- 'why must we conclude that the universe has a beginning?'
- even if we could prove that there is order and purpose in the universe it would still not be evidence for the existence of the work of a god of classic theism
- humaans do not have sufficient knowledge and experiences of the creation of the world to conclude there is only one designer
- God transcendes human understanding so trying to discuss design in human terms is not an acceptable analogy
- 'why must we conclude that the universe has a beginning?'
- Mill
- evidence of design = support of the non-existance of god or a god that did not have the attributes accepted by christens
- because there is evil and suffering in the world , the designer could not have been all-loving, all-powerful or all-knowing
- if all-loving then the suffering of humanity would not have been included in the design
- because there is evil and suffering in the world , the designer could not have been all-loving, all-powerful or all-knowing
- Untitled
- evidence of design = support of the non-existance of god or a god that did not have the attributes accepted by christens
- Darwin
- evolution
- natural selection
- natural selection has no purpose in mind- it has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. if It can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker
- evolution
- F. R. Tennant
- Aesthetic Argument
- the world is saturated with beauty
- beauty does not help with our survival - no evolutional purpose
- beauty in the natural order is replicated in human creativity, itself a gift from a personal, loving creator
- beauty does not help with our survival - no evolutional purpose
- Anthropic Principle
- Goldilocks effect
- the universe is 'just right' for humans to live in
- Fine tuning
- the finely tuned laws of the universe makes it possible for human life
- the rational beauty of a finely tuned universe points to the rational mind of the creator
- the finely tuned laws of the universe makes it possible for human life
- Goldilocks effect
- the world is saturated with beauty
- Aesthetic Argument
- a posteriori
- based on empirical evidence
- does not offer conclusive proof of the existence of a God
- watch analogy
- first part - design qua purpose
- eye example
- Paley
- second part - design qua regularity
- the rotation of the planets in the solar system, and how they obey the same universal laws and hold their orbits because of gravity
- this could not have come about by chance
- an external agent must have imposed order on the universe as a whole, and on its many parts
- this agent must be God
- an external agent must have imposed order on the universe as a whole, and on its many parts
- this could not have come about by chance
- the rotation of the planets in the solar system, and how they obey the same universal laws and hold their orbits because of gravity
- second part - design qua regularity
- too complex to think that it just came about naturally - it must have had a designer
- first part - design qua purpose
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