teleological argument
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- Teleological argument
- Aquinas
- everything lacks intelligence and knowledge
- need to be directed
- analogy- arrow
- argument FROM design
- everything lacks intelligence and knowledge
- Paley
- watch + stone- watch has a purpose (intricate detail)
- argument TO design
- Arthur Brown
- ozone layer- just the right thickness must have designed
- Tennant
- love/appreciation for art is put in us
- evolution is flawed it cannot develop
- love/appreciation for art is put in us
- criticism
- Hume
- 1) use of analogies
- watches and the universe have DIFFERENT LOGICAL SPHERES
- 2) more than one designer?
- building a ship needs more than one
- flaws with design are designers fault - builder
- 3) randomness leading to order
- chaos either destroys itself or becomes ordered
- 1) use of analogies
- Mill
- nature is guilty of serious crimes for which she goes unpunished
- female wasps
- nature is guilty of serious crimes for which she goes unpunished
- evolution Vs irreducible complexity
- evolution
- gradual changes and adaptations
- genetic mutations- giraffes
- gradual changes and adaptations
- irreducible complexity
- Behe- need all parts to work- mousetrap
- evolution
- Hume
- Aquinas
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