The Teleological Argument
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- Teleological Argument
- WHAT?
- Looks at the idea of purpose and order in universe
- Evidence for design in universe- POSTERIORI
- INDUCTIVE argument- Reasoning that takes specific incidents then draws a general conclusion
- "TELOS"- END/ PURPOSE
- Concerned with the reason why the world functions in an orderly& intelligent manner
- DESIGN QUA REGULARITY
- DESIGN QUA PURPOSE
- AQUINAS -DESIGN QUA REGULARITY:
- Natural objects act towards an end/goal for a purpose
- Their actions are not random but ordered
- Must be directed in its action
- Must be an intelligent being- Directs movement- GOD
- e.g.( arrow shot to target by an archer)
- Must be an intelligent being- Directs movement- GOD
- Must be directed in its action
- Their actions are not random but ordered
- Natural objects act towards an end/goal for a purpose
- PALEY'S- DESIGN QUA PURPOSE:
- Uses watch analogy-Required that a watchmaker had put the complex mechanism together for its specific purpose
- Intricacy& careful ordering- too precise for it to come about by chance
- CRITICISMS OF THE ARGUMENT:
- MILL: EMPIRCIST
- If there was a creator, then he certainly wasn't the God suggested by classical theism
- "If the maker of the world can do alll that he wills, he wills misery"
- DARWIN: NATURALIST
- Evolution- operates "blind", "Survival of the fittest"- Natural selection
- No over-ridding purposeful design
- HUME: EMPIRICIST
- 1.Weak Analogy
- 2.Order does not prove Design.
- 3.Cause and Effect
- 4.Not the Christian God
- 5. More than one God
- 6. Universe is Unique
- "The only watchmaker in nature is the blind force of physics"- Dawkins
- MILL: EMPIRCIST
- WHAT?
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