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TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT/paley's watchmaker argument
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Human artifacts are products of intelligent design; they have a purpose.
2. The universe resembles these human artifacts. 3. Therefore: It is probable that the universe is a product of intelligent design, and has a purpose. 4. However, the universe is vastly more complex and gigantic than a human artifact is. 5. Therefore: There is probably a powerful and vastly intelligent designer who created the universe. |
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Paley's Watchmaker Argument
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watch : watch maker :: universe : universe maker
He argues just as the function and complexity of a watch implies a watch-maker, so likewise the function and complexity of the universe implies the existence of a universe-maker. |
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Argument from Analogy
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nondeductive inference in which one infers that a target object T has some characteristic on the ground that T is similar to some other object A (the analog) and A is known to possess that characteristic
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Darwinian Objection
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"Machine making machine"
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The “who designed God objection”
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Postulating the existence of God does not solve the problem of design, but merely transfers it up on level
i. If universe is wonderfully designed, surely God is even more so. If so, he must have a designer even more wonderful than He is. ii. If God did not require a designer, then there is no reason why such a relatively less wonderful thing as the universe needed one. |
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The “broken watch objection”
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The purpose of telling the time. You would conclude that the watch was
designed by an intelligent mind. Even if the watch was broken or damaged you would still conclude that it had been designed by and intelligent mind. Even if you could not understand all of its working parts and how they functioned together you would still conclude that it had been designed by an intelligent mind. There could be no naturalistic explanation for the watch. Just as the existence of a watch implies a watchmaker, so the existence of the world implies an even greater designer - God. |
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The only universe objection
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Objection: The watch (re universe) is only one possible form of many possible combinations and so is a chance event.
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The “bad theology objection”
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One knows nothing about the matter at all.
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