The design theory
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- Created on: 23-04-15 17:12
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- The Design Argument
- Aquinas' 5th way
- Everything works to some purpose or regularity and follows natural laws
- Even things that have no rational powers still have a purpose. They must be directed by something external to themselves.
- Example: The arrow can only be directed to its goal by an archer
- Therefore there is an intelligent being which directs everything towards a purpose. this is God.
- Paley
- Design qua purpose- evidence shows design in the universe around us.
- Everything seems to have been made to fulfil a purpose.E.g. the eye is designed to fulfil its purpose
- Analogy of the watch- when looking at a watch it is unreasonable to think that the intricacies of it are undesigned- same with the universe.
- Probability Argument
- Swinburne- The fact that the universe is so orderly suggests design rather than chance
- What is more probable design or chance ?
- Anthropic and Aesethic principles
- The universe could be chaotic but it is not and instead it is set up in such a way to enable life to evolve.
- Beauty- Tennant Humans posses the ability to appreciate the beauty of their surroundings- not needed for survival, could be evidence of a divine creator
- Criticisms
- Hume : comparing God and the universe to mechanical things is not valid. Humans don't have proper knowledge of creation of worlds - prototype ?
- Mill: Argued that because there is evil and suffering in the world then the designer cannot have been all powerful, all knowing and all loving
- Epicurean Hypothesis: At the time of creation the universe was just as mass of particles in chaos, but gradually this evolved into order. The universe is eternal- must have produced something ordered.
- Darwin:The world is not a result of an intelligent designer but as a result of natural selection.
- Aquinas' 5th way
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