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Argument from design, Argument for the existence of God. According to one version, the universe as a whole is like a machine; machines have intelligent designers; like effects have like causes; therefore, the universe as a whole has an intelligent designer, which is God. The argument was propounded.
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Oct 24, 2009 · The argument from design has been in use for millennia, but it is most commonly associated with the nineteenth century English theologian William Paley and his 1802 treatise Natural Theology, or Evidence of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature.
- T. Ryan Gregory
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The teleological argument (from τέλος, telos, 'end, aim, goal') also known as physico-theological argument, argument from design, or intelligent design argument, is a rational argument for the existence of God or, more generally, that complex functionality in the natural world, which looks designed, is evidence of an intelligent creator ...
The argument from design remains as it was. Marks of design and contrivance are no more accounted for now than they were before. In the same thing, we may ask for the cause of different properties. We may ask for the cause of the color of a body, of its hardness, of its heat; and these causes may be all different.
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Learn about the different versions and criticisms of the design argument, which tries to infer God's existence from the features of the world that suggest intelligent design. The article covers classical and contemporary arguments, such as Aquinas's Fifth Way, Paley's watchmaker argument, and the fine-tuning argument.
The Argument from Design is an argument of a distinctive sort. It proceeds by means of a principle which is sometimes called the Inference to the Best Explanation or IBE. This principle can be formulated in several ways, and we will discuss it at length when we take up the rationality of scientific inference in the next section of the course.
Jun 10, 2005 · The resultant theistic arguments, in their various logical forms, share a focus on plan, purpose, intention, and design, and are thus classified as teleological arguments (or, frequently, as arguments from or to design).
