Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Megan's Mind map for design
argument
- Intoruction
- Greek word 'telos' meaning order or purpose
- a posteriori argument
- Prove the existence of God through evidence of desgin
- no defiinitive prove that God exists
- INTODUCTION
- Greek word telos meaning oder or purpose
- a posteriori argument
- no definitive prove that God exists
- prove the existence of God through evidence of design
- ANALOGY
- William Paley-watch analogy 9design qua purpose)
- Thomas Aquinas-bow
- John Wisdom-Parable of the Gardener (design qua regularity)
- Watch and watchmaker, word and worldmaker
- SUITABILITY FOR LIFE AND BEAURY
- Anthropic principle- 'dice is loaded'
- asethetic principle
- arthur bown-ozone layer
- Tenant takes the findings of Darwin into account
- INDUCTIVE
- aim is to persuade
- Genesis creation story
- arguments for God only work if they are a posteriori
- Aquinas 5 Ways
- A POSTERIORI
- concerned with our experiences of the world
- design qua regularity; lacteal system of plants and animals
- design qua purpose; order and regulairty evident in the word