PHI-2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Intelligent Design, Intelligent Designer, Teleological Argument
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Paley"s design argument (the teleological argument) http://www. qcc. cuny. edu/socialsciences/ppecorino/intro_text/chapter%203%20r eligion/teleological. htm. >>argues that there exists so much intricate design, detail, and purpose in the world that there must be a superior creator of all of it and that it did not occur by chance. Premises: human artifacts are products of intelligent design, the universe resembles human artifacts, therefore the universe is a product of intelligent design, but the universe is complex and gigantic in comparison to human artifacts. Everything in the universe shows evidence of being designed for a purpose and, Paley applies this argument to every organized part in nature. Objections to the argument: supreme being to say that they designed everything because the universe if full of flaws. Charles darwin showed that having an appearance of design and not actually.
