The Teleological Argument of Aquinas
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- The Teleological Argument of Aquinas
- Main concepts
- A Posteriori = Based on experiences of design/ order
- Telos = End goal or Purpose
- Inductive reasoning = begin with evidence to reach a conclusion.
- First Argument
- Premise One = There is evidence of intelligent design in the universe
- Premise Two = Intelligent design needs an intelligent designer
- Conclusion = The intelligent designer is God
- Second Argument
- Premise One = Beings without knowledge act for an end goal
- Premise Two = They must be directed to by an intelligent being
- Conclusion = The intelligent being is God
- Aquinas' Four Causes
- Efficient = What Made it
- Material = What it's made of
- Final = What it's used for
- FOR
- William Paley
- The watchmaker
- Design Qua Regularity = Evidence of order
- Design Qua Purpose = Evidence of purpose / end goals
- William Paley
- AGAINST
- Hume
- Evidence of Natural selection
- The carrot Analogy = why couldn't the world have just grown
- Unjustified leap from the idea of designer to that being evidence for God
- Limited human concept of God
- Many watchmakers
- Evidence of Order - but that could simply be by coincidence
- Mill
- The world is not ordered but in fact in chaos
- Mother nature is guilty of crimes against humanity
- Darwin
- Evolution
- Natural Selection
- Hume
- STRENGTHS / WEAKNESS
- STRENGTHS
- A Posteriori = experiences of some form of order and purpose
- Inductive = there is evidence which can be pointed towards the idea of design
- WEAKNESS
- Many Watchmakers
- Unjustified Leap from designer to God
- Scientific evidence of natural selection or evolution
- STRENGTHS
- Main concepts
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