Examine the key idea's about strengths of the design argument for the existence of God.

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Jessica Ivaldi

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                       (a) Examine the key idea's about strengths of the 

                         design argument for the existence of God. (21)

The design argument is an argument that tries to demonstrate  the existence of God as the explanation of the creation of this planet and all it's purpose's.

The Teleological argument argues that the universe is being directed towards a telos, an end purpose, and the a posteriori evidence of an apparent design in the world implies the existence of a designer, God. The argument can be split into two main categories, design qua purpose and design qua regularity. I'm going to examine the key ideas in this essay.

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William Paley wrote a book called 'Natural Theology' and he mentioned his own form of the Teleological argument which have two parts:  Design qua Purpose – the universe was designed to fulfil a purpose, and Design qua Regularity – the universe behaves according to some order. Paley uses an analogy of a watch to explain the Design qua purpose. The watch is like the universe as it is far too complex to have just happened by chance, so it is impossible to suggest that the universe had come about without the creator of a ‘universe maker’, which is God.

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