Aquinas and his version on the Teleological Argument

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Aquinas and his version on the Teleological Argument

Thomas Aquinas was a famous Italian priest from the time of the twelve hundreds, with his own version of the design argument. Aquinas' design argument was described in the five ways, which his cosmological argument was also described within this. In his final way he speaks of the observable universe and the order of nature. Aquinas then states that it is our common sense that  tells us that the universe works in such a way, so one is supposed to end with a conclusion that it was designed by an intelligent designer who is supposed to be god. In other words, all physical laws and the order of nature and life were designed and ordered by an intelligent designer. His argument shares links in with Aristotle's cosmological argument. Thomas Aquinas is saying that while human beings do exist and think for themselves, the reason why humans exist is due to an uncaused causer which made the natural laws needed for our existence.

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Aquinas talked about nature seeming to have order and purpose to it, he also sujested that nothing with no sign of life is purposeful, without the help of a "guiding hand" sujesting a creator. He used and example of an archer shooting and arrow at a target as a small analogy for this. So everything in nature which is moving but has no intelligence has to be directed by god. Aquinas claimed that there is order and purpose in the world, but he said that objects which are inanimate(lifeless such the planets), could not have been ordered themselves, as they ...

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