Thomas Aquinas’s intelligent designer argument and David Hume’s response Thomas Aquinas’s argument is based on the premise that the universe came into existence with a purpose and design. Therefore, there must be an intelligent designer who brought it into being. The term teleological came from the Greek word “telos” which means, “goal” or “end”. In the “fifth way”, Aquinas’s begins the design argument by stating, “things in the world are always changing or moving, yet lack the consciousness to be self-moving or changing. Therefore they must be moved and changed by another.”[7] Aquinas’s
Thomas Aquinas’s intelligent designer argument and David Hume’s response Thomas Aquinas’s argument is based on the premise that the universe came into existence with a purpose and design. Therefore, there must be an intelligent designer who brought it into being. The term teleological came from the Greek word “telos” which means, “goal” or “end”. In the “fifth way”, Aquinas’s begins the design argument by stating, “things in the world are always changing or moving, yet lack the consciousness to be self-moving or changing. Therefore they must be moved and changed by another.”[7] Aquinas’s