How valid do you think the teleological argument is as a proof of the existence of God?
Adileh Fard
How valid do you think the teleological argument is as a proof of the existence of God?
The design argument, sometimes called the teleological argument suggests that the world has a certain order or purpose in its appearance and so its specific structure points to a designer such as God.
First of all the most important form of the design argument was put forward by a man called William Paley in his book ‘Natural Theology’. Paley put this argument forward in the form of a simple analogy. He said if we were to come across a watch, we would conclude that all the parts fitted together for a purpose, and had not come together by chance. Therefore an intelligent person would conclude that there was a designer for this watch. In the same way he believed, if we look at the world we can also conclude that there must be a designer because of the way that things fit together for a purpose.