Zusammenfassung der Ressource
design argument (teleological)
- aristotle
- there was a potentuality & actuality to be a more completed
state in both nature & humans
- everything has a goal or purpose, even nature.
- william paley
- analogy: watch or eye. if something shows intelligent design then it
must have a designer. god must be the universes designer
- design qua regularity: design in relation to
the order & regularity of the university
- design qua purpose: evidence of design, how the
parts of the universe fit together for a purpose
- F.R.tennant
- aesthetic principle: universe poses a natural beauty that goes beyond that
which is necessary to live (not needed for survival). shows god created it.
- anthropic principle: relating to mankind or the period of mankinds existence.
the universe had such a low percentage chance of supporting life that it must
have been created with the purpose to support us humans
- swinburne
- universe was indeed law governed rather than chaotic.
so the world was designed rather than by chance
- aquinas: fifth way
- "everything operates as to a design.
this design is from god"
- immanual kant
- argues our mind imposes order on the world. it may
not be there but we have been taught to see it
- the universe is not a self ordering system so to order must be imposed
from an outside agency. only intelligent beings are capable of imposing
order. this intelligent mind must have been god.
- arthur brown
- the ozone layer protects us from harmful rays and orbiting meteorites and keeps out
atmosphere inside and so something so perfect to protect us must be created