The Design Argument
Both the Cosmological and Teleological (Design) argument for the existence of God argue ‘a posteriori’, in that, they look to science to substantiate God’s existence. Whereas the crucial notion of the cosmological argument is causality, the teleological argument (from the Greek word ‘teleos’ meaning ‘end’ or purpose) argues qua regularity and qua purpose(1). Design arguments are arguments from analogy(2); the universe is analogical to things within it and therefore like these, must have a cause. The most famous example of analogy qua purpose was by William Paley(3) ‘Just as a watch is a complex mechanism, having parts which co-operate so as to achieve a certain end, namely the measurement of time, so for example the eye is a highly complex system having parts which co-operate to provide information about its environment to the organism’. The watch was designed by an intelligence with a purpo
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David Hume, Richard Swinbourne, Teleological Design, William Paley3, Thomas Aquinas, Natural Selection8, teleological argument, cosmological argument, argument design, design argument, qua regularity,
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