There had to be something external (without beginning or end) that was not caused by anything.
The external first cause is God therefore God exists as the uncaused cause.
Supported by the bible in Genesis "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth..."
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Teleological Theory
Put forward by William Paley in the eighteenth century.
There is a difference between a stone and a watch. One must be manufactured carefully to work whereas the other is simply there.
The world is like a watch carefully constructed by a designer.
If you put the pieces in a different order it wouldn't work correctly.
The world is perfect and complex - e.g.DNA, the food chain, the seasons.
The world is too amazing to be just chance - it must have been constructed and designed by someone who really thought about it. Therefore, God exists as the designer.
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Evolution
Charles Darwin observed that depending on the enviroment, different variations in species can occure yet the story of Creation doesn't go along with this theory.
Genesis says we were made in the image of man, NOT evoloved from apes.
Gaps in the fossil records means that we still lack the scientific proof to prove evolution is true.
Evolution goes against the Design Argument.
Fundamental Christians believe 100% of what the Bible says whereas Liberal Christians are more open to accept that the Bible is not a historically or scientifically accurate book.
The Genesis Creation story in the Bible tells us that God created the world in stages and this can be matched up with the evolutionary stages.
Evolution explains the problems that the Design Argument poses - e.g. why there is illness or why there are conjoined twins etc. God has specifically designed them - but they hae evolved from God's original design.
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Genesis
Day 1: Day and night created. Day 2: Sky and sea created. Day 3: Land and plants created. Day 4: Sun, moon and stars created. Day 5: Sea creatures and birds created. Day 6: Wild animals, man and woman created. Day 7: God rested.
No mention of dinosaurs, atheists argue that the peope writing the bible wouldn't have had dinosaurs around.
Mentions "days" before the creation of the planets.
Mentions "plants" before the creation of the sun.
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Cosmological Revolution
Galileo oposed te idea that the Earth was at the centre of the universe and the idea that it was immovable aswell.
He found various facts to prove that the Bible was wrong and that the planets didn't orbit the earth.
Many disagreed with him because science was less popular than it is nowadays.
Galileo didn't disagree with religion merely the historical inacurracy of the Bible.
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