The Design Argument Full Notes
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- The Design Argument
- Early Testimonies of Design
- Socrates
- "with such signs of forethought in the design of living creatures, can you doubt they are the work of design?"
- Cicero
- "what could be more obvious when we look up to contemplate the heaven, that there is some divinity/ intelligence?"
- Psalm 19
- "the heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands"
- Socrates
- Appearance of Design
- David Hume
- Design
- Creator / God
- Aquinas
- Theist
- "It is plain that they achieve their end (telos) ot fortuitously but designedly"
- Change
- Mother Nature
- Dawkins
- Atheist
- "The temptation to attribute the appearance of design to actual design is a false one"
- order
- complexity
- providence
- purpose
- beauty
- purpose
- providence
- complexity
- Qualities
- inductive
- a posteriori
- Types
- To Design
- "qua regularity"
- by probability
- providential
- Anthropic Argument
- Fred Tennant
- "If the universe were different in any significant way, we wouldn't be here to wonder why it is the way it is"
- Dyson
- "As we identify the many accidents of physics that have worked together to our benefit, it seems as if the Universe [knew] we were coming"
- Cosmic fine-tuning
- Paul Davies
- Goldilocks Enigma
- Stephen Hawkins
- "these seem to have been very finely adjusted to make [life] possible"
- Fred Tennant
- From Design
- "qua purpose"
- teleological
- by analogy
- William Paley
- "every manifestation of design, which existed in the watch, exists in the works of nature"
- The Watchmaker Analogy
- Qualities of complexity
- specific materials
- several parts
- works for a purpose
- regular motion
- indispensable parts
- A watch has all qualities of complexity hence must have a watchmaker
- When compared with a human eye, they have identical qualities so there must be an eye maker
- "Like effects have like causes"
- "The marks of design are too strong. Design must have had a designer. That designer must be God."
- When compared with a human eye, they have identical qualities so there must be an eye maker
- Qualities of complexity
- To Design
- Critisms
- David Hume
- like effects dont always have like causes
- unsound analogy
- the world is not a machine
- all things have similar causes like the rock
- the world is not a machine
- it anthropomorphizes God
- we have no experience in world making
- we have nothing to compare our universe to
- The Epicurean Hypothesis
- Order can come from chaos
- Multi-verse Theory
- if there are multiple universes life becomes inevitable, not improbable
- Weak Anthropic Principle
- We are finely tuned for the universe, not vice versa
- AJ Ayer
- limited experience
- cant tell real design from fake
- limited experience
- David Hume
- Early Testimonies of Design
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