Teleological Argument
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- Created on: 11-05-15 12:28
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- Teleological Argument
- Plato
- Demi urge fashioned world out of pre existing matter
- Aristotle
- Unmoved Mover responsible for order in universe
- Aquinas
- Arrow and Archer Analogy
- 5th Way
- Paley
- Watch Analogy
- Design Qua Purpose
- Everything in the universe has a purpose and can achieve its purpose
- Human Eye
- Everything in the universe has a purpose and can achieve its purpose
- Design Qua Regularity
- Intelligent being predetermined their place allowing them regularity of motion
- Planets
- Intelligent being predetermined their place allowing them regularity of motion
- Tennant
- Anthropic Principle
- Seems rationally true that God is the creator
- Too unlikely that the universe came about by random chance e.g. Big Bang occuring at right time and speed
- Swinburne's Probability Argument
- Laws of nature wouldn't have shaped humans into what they are today
- Aesthetic Principle
- Appreciating beauty doesn't aid our survival - can act against it e.g. a tiger
- God created the world as it is so we can appreciate beauty and enjoy living in it
- Anthropic Principle
- Plato
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