Order and purpose clearly exist in our world, you can see this in the way that everything has an order for example in the water cycle the rivers run down to the sea and then the water from the sea evaporates into clouds this always happens in order as one has to happen to make the others in the cycle happen. Everything also has a purpose, for example plants and grass are there for animals and humans to eat, their purpose is to be first on the food chain. However the debate is that, is the reason that we have order and purpose in the world because of god, is this proof of gods existence? Or is god not the answer?
There are many writers who firmly believe in the statement above, the first is Thomas aqueous who was the founder of the cosmological argument. His theory states that there are 5 ways to prove gods existence. Firstly, that change and these are caused by other changes, this starts a cycle, he states that there must be a first cause or change; he says that this is god. Secondly he said that everything happens for a reason and he says that this reason is god. His third posterior is ontological, he says that things and people exist but it is not necessary for them to exist, he says that there must have been a time and place whe

I think the challenge has been successful, however half of the writers I have motioned do not say that the christens view is wrong; one even states that there is in fact a creator although it is not god. I don’t think that region should be threaded by science, most of the theories are considerate of christens views I think that science does not mean to challenge but to simply provide another point of view and is still open minded to the believes of others.

These writings have challenged the design argument by putting forward the ideas that the world was not created in seven days, that there was no creator and some there was no god. To put the idea that there was no god and therefore no grand designer heavily threatened the design argument this has affected religious believers in positive and negative ways. For some they might see this as a test of their faith and by getting thought it makes their faith stronger. However it could lead religious believers to think that if there are such doubts about god’s existence and what the bible says is not true, then maybe there is no god and may subsquesly lose their faith.

John steward mill’s writings were more board minded, he accepted the teleological argument points towards a designer, however this designer was not god as claimed by Christianity. Christianity claims that god is benevolent and omnipotent, mill thought that if this were true then god would put a stop to natural disasters and would be able to neutralise harmful effects. He believed that there was a creator although that creator was not god.