Teleological Argument Mind Map
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- Created on: 21-04-16 14:32
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- The Teleological Argument
- Arguments FOR
- Plato and Aristotle
- Universal Truth
- Plato: Form World
- Aristotle: Four Causes
- Universal Truth
- Thomas Aquinas
- 'From the Governance of the World
- Intelligence of Beings
- William Paley
- The 'watch and universe' analogy
- Anthropic Argument
- The world supports human life
- The world can be rationally analysed
- Evolution is parts of God's plan
- Aesthetic Principle
- F.R Tennant
- Beauty is everywhere, but it cannot be explained through scientific or evolutionary need. Something else must explain it = God
- F.R Tennant
- Plato and Aristotle
- Arguments AGAINST
- David Hume
- Analogies that compare natural and mechanical are weak
- Order in the universe doesn't mean a designer
- Just because some elements of the universe are designed doesn't mean the whole universe is
- It is likely there are many designers, and not just one God
- The Problem of Evil
- The universe is more natural than mechanical
- Natural Selection
- The world came to be through random chance directed by natural selection
- Evolution is a cruel and violent proves, which doesn't concur with an amnibenevolant God
- Immanuel Kant
- 1) We live in a spacio-temporal world, and can only experience the world in the phenomenal realm
- 2) God exists in the noumenal realm, and so any attempt prove Him is illogical
- David Hume
- Arguments FOR
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