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Design Argument In Establishing The Existence Of God

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In philosophy, there is an argument called the teleological argument. It can also be called the design argument, and it basically states that if something has order and therefore design, then there has to be a designer. The argument goes like this, “1. The world exhibits design. 2. Exhibiting design implies a designer. SC. The world has a designer. C. God exists.” I believe the teleological argument fails in establishing the existence of God. I believe this argument fails because it is invalid, provides false dichotomies, and has no proof the designer of the world is the 3-O (omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent) God. The 3-O God is a huge factor because the whole point of this argument is to try to prove that this all powerful, all knowing, and all good God exists. …show more content…

The premises say nothing about God and then it just appears in the conclusion. Philosophy has taught that a conclusion cannot just come from nowhere. It has to appear somewhere in the argument before it can appear in the conclusion. The idea of design shows up all throughout the argument so that is okay, but God does not show up until the conclusion and that is not okay. Supporters of this argument have tried to save it by adding to it. After the SC. the world has a designer, a fourth premise was added that states the designer is God so then the conclusion is still God exists. The thought here is that since God was mentioned in a premise he can now be in the conclusion. I do not think adding this premise saves the argument. It just simply fixes the validity heuristic

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The conclusion, thus, is that Nature was created by intelligent design. This argument is the centerpiece of Paley’s “Argument from Design”, as he spends the previous two sections deliberately lining the specifics of a watch, the clear order a watch follows, and that there must be a creator for a watch. In this section, he puts forward an analogy that nature is like a watch in that both have specific orders and contrivances which thus mean that both were created by an intelligent

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Hambourger’s argument from design argues for the existence of god based on the perceived evidence of deliberate design in the world/universe. To further elaborate on the concepts he uses, Hambourger uses three main concepts; determinism, chance, and mere hap. Hambourger’s argument from design claims that though many things occur by chance, there are some things which we cannot simply accept to have happened by chance, and must therefore have some common explanation in the causal chain of events connecting the two events. For instance the universe is created by many states of affairs coming together. If some slight changes had occurred, the end result could have been vastly different than it currently is.

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I thought this was his most powerful argument because the reasoning can only be refuted by altering the monotheistic idea of god or giving sufficient reasoning for all of the suffering in the world, which is no easy

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In “Argument from Design”, William Paley presents a teleological argument for the existence of a powerful and an intelligent designer who created the universe. Paley is trying to prove God’s existence by creating an analogy between the watch and the living organisms. Paley claims that God’s existence depends on the world’s complex structure, and purpose will be detailed in this paper and prove how his argument was crucial in making people understand the very presence or belief in God (Mcgrath 21). There are some people who do not believe in the existence of God. One might argue against the existence of an intelligent mind that created the universe by saying that if there is a God who created this world, then why do we have natural disasters and poor people.

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The Teleological argument is also a cosmological argument it also begins with the existence of the cosmos. McCloskey rejects this argument along with the argument of design by rejecting the premise. However, “Tennant and Swinburne developed a version of this argument not as strict deductive proof but to show probability of theism” (Evans & Manis) The theory of evolution was offered as an explanation for the creation of design which was rejected because there many things before the theory of evolution. McCloskey believe there must be indisputable proof of actual evidence to prove evolution.

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The 6th premise states that "God is the only thing outside the universe". She explicitly makes reference to the existence of God, to make the argument that god caused the universe, and thus God exists. This does not even ask the question that most agnostic/atheist philosophers do, what causes God? If God is an uncaused cause, why can the universe not be an uncaused circumstance? Both arguments would be stronger if the first premise was instead everything that begins to exist has a cause (p. 91).

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The objection addressed the validity of the argument which had the premise 1, nothing is the efficient cause of itself except God and premise 2, a chain of causes cannot be infinite. The argument thus concludes there must be a first cause. This conclusion agrees with my thesis that Saint Thomas Aquinas’s argument formulated in the second way leads to a valid argument, which concludes that there must be a first cause and that God

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