Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Argument From Poor Design, Supreme Intelligence, Teleological Argument

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Natural bodies act for an end, including natural bodies which lack knowledge or intelligence. Non-intelligent natural bodies which act for an end must have their action directed by a being endowed with knowledge and intelligence. Therefore, an intelligent being exists by whom all natural being are controlled. Unintelligent, they have intelligence they just don"t use it. Aquinas" point would be precisely that a cybernetic machine has had a human designer, an intelligent designer. Are social insects evidence that there must be a supreme intelligence of the world. Rewrote and explained the fifth way, he didn"t write it. His explanation: you are walking in a field, you find a delicate watch: a watch is an elaborate mechanism whose parts serve certain ends, we infer that the watch was made by an intelligence watchmaker. It had to be made by someone, so we automatically can assume: the universe is also an elaborate mechanism whose parts serve certain ends.

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