Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Aquinas'
Design
Argument
- INDUCTIVE
- a posteriori
- based on probability
- formed from
previous experience
- not the only logical
conclusion
- ARGUMENT TO DESIGN
- design qua purpose
- aquinas' 5th way to prove God
- also known as the
teleological argument
- GUIDING HAND
- if we were to look at a bow
and arrow, we would see it
working towards a purpose
and know that somebody
must have set it off working
towards the purpose
- everything in the world seems
to be working towards a
purpose
- There must be a guiding hand
setting everything off towards its
target: this guiding hand is God
- AQUINAS
- italian dominican friar
- 13th century
- summa theologica
- "to one who has faith, no
explanation is necessary...
to one without faith, no
explanation is possible"