The Design Argument For The Existence Of God

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The Design Argument For The Existence Of God

This argument is also called the teleological argument, it argues that the universe did not come around by mere chance, but some one or something designed it. This thing was God. This argument is a prosteriori because the observation of the natural world is taken into the mind to conclude that there is a designer. The belief that the universe was designed by God was triggered by things like the four seasons; summer, spring, autumn and winter, that change through the year. The adaption of the human body and the structure of earths natural things. All of this had to of been designed to make the universe come into order, have a purpose and regularity.

Because the world is so complexed and in order, God is believed to have so much power and is omnipotent to have designed the universe. Such natural things such as trees, grass and flowers are each individual. Everything is a part of everything else, Einstein thought that everything is connected to have a specific purpose on earth. If everything was all muddled up then they wouldn't work properly. For example; a car would not drive if the engine and other parts of the car were not fitted right. Isaac Newton took interest in this argument and put across a theory that even some thing like the human thumb, so individual, had to of had a designer. Isaac Newton was a Christian.

A philosopher called William Paley, used a different approach to explain this teleological argument. He had two different approaches to how the universe was created. Paley compared a watched the way the universe, he thought the world was like a machine it must have a designer. In the 18th Century a watch was considered a complicated piece of machinery. Paley also compared the design of the universe to a stone, he questioned himself about 'if a stone hit his foot, how did the stone get there?'
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A watch is made up of many different parts called mechanisms that all had to be placed properly otherwise it wouldn't work, he compared this to the way the world and universe was made. Everything serves a purpose and has a reason of why it is there. William Paley compared the creation of the universe to a lot of different things, also including the structure of the human eye. The human eye is very intricate and complex design of sight. Paley believed that a very intelligent designer had to have made a complex design such as the eye ...

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