Teleogical Argument
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- Created on: 03-12-18 09:48
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- Teleological Argument
- St Thomas Aquinas
- Influenced by Aristotle
- Intelligent designer gives purpose and influences unknowledgeable natural things in the world - God
- Aquinas links Aristotle's idea of a final cause to God
- 5th Way
- When you look at the natural world you can see everything in it follows natural laws even if things are not conscious, thinking beings
- If things follow natural laws 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 think
- If things follow natural laws they tend to do well and have some goal or purpose
- When you look at the natural world you can see everything in it follows natural laws even if things are not conscious, thinking beings
- Combine faith and reason
- Saw intelligence in the universe
- 5 arguments to prove God's existence
- 1225-1274
- Influenced by Aristotle
- William Paley
- 1743-1805
- Human Eye
- Weakness = he compared the natural world to a machine
- Nature = complex
- Requires a great designer
- Too complex for humans
- Grand designer
- God
- Grand designer
- Too complex for humans
- Requires a great designer
- Comparison of a rock and a watch
- Part 1
- You could conclude a rock had been there forever and would think much about it. But a watch you could conclude:
- a) Has a purpose
- c) Parts are ordered so it can function
- b) Parts work together and fit for a purpose
- d) If the parts were ordered differently it wouldn't work
- Conclusion = the watch had a maker
- You could conclude a rock had been there forever and would think much about it. But a watch you could conclude:
- Part 2
- 1) Suppose the watch had another imaginary function that of producting other watches
- 2) If this were the case, your admiration for the watch would maker would be increased
- 3) Conclusion: any person finding such a watch would conclude that the design of the watch implies the presence of intelligence and mind
- 2) If this were the case, your admiration for the watch would maker would be increased
- 1) Suppose the watch had another imaginary function that of producting other watches
- Part 1
- Aristotle
- 385-322BC
- 4 Causes
- Efficient Cause
- Formal Cause
- Final Cause
- Maternal Cause
- Influneced by Aquinas
- Concluded a Prime Mover
- 'Intelligent Designer'
- F.R.Tennant
- A combination of things we observe in the world leads us to believe God exists
- The way the world is and how humans are, is best explained by God guiding intelligence behind creation
- Influenced
- Aesthetic argument
- Humans appreciate aesthetic activities which are not necessary for mere survival so cannot have come here about through natural selection so must be the product of a design creator
- Anthropic argument
- The world only exists as it does and supports life because a number of physical constants exists therefore this requires such fine tuning it cannot have happened by chance, someone must have made it happen
- Aesthetic argument
- The God Hypothesis
- 1866-1957
- A combination of things we observe in the world leads us to believe God exists
- St Thomas Aquinas
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