Design Argument Quotes

Rock vs watch [blank_start]analogy[blank_end] - William [blank_start]Paley[blank_end] - Natural Theology (18[blank_start]02[blank_end]) - (qua [blank_start]purpose[blank_end])

"Hence it is plain ["[blank_start]natural[blank_end] bodies"] achieve their end, not [blank_start]fortuitously[blank_end], but [blank_start]designedly[blank_end]." - Aquinas - Summa [blank_start]Theologica[blank_end] - 5th of 5 ways to prove the existence of God "from the [blank_start]governance[blank_end] of things." #1

"Now whatever lacks [blank_start]knowledge[blank_end] cannot move towards an [blank_start]end[blank_end], unless it be [blank_start]directed[blank_end] by some being endowed with knowledge and [blank_start]intelligence[blank_end]; as the [blank_start]arrow[blank_end] is directed by the archer." - Aquinas - Summa Theologica - #2

"Therefore some [blank_start]intelligent[blank_end] being exists by whom all [blank_start]natural[blank_end] things are [blank_start]directed[blank_end] to their end; and this [blank_start]being[blank_end] we call God." - Aquinas - Summa Theologica - #3

"With such signs of [blank_start]forethought[blank_end] in the design of living creatures, can you doubt they are the work of [blank_start]choice[blank_end] or [blank_start]design[blank_end]?" - [blank_start]Socrates[blank_end]

"So either the [blank_start]orderliness[blank_end] of nature is where all explanation [blank_start]stops[blank_end], or we must postulate an agent of such great power and knowledge [...] the [blank_start]simplest[blank_end] of such agent [...] [blank_start]God[blank_end]." - Richard Swineburne

(Why does the universe have to have a beginning?) - "How can anything that exists from [blank_start]eternity[blank_end] have a [blank_start]cause[blank_end], since the relationship implies a [blank_start]priority[blank_end] in time and a [blank_start]beginning[blank_end] of existence." - Hume

"The [blank_start]teleologist[blank_end]'s starting point is not that we [blank_start]perceive[blank_end] order rather than disorder, but that order rather than disorder is there." - Richard [blank_start]Swinburne[blank_end]

"The only [blank_start]watchmaker[blank_end] in nature is the [blank_start]blind[blank_end] forces of [blank_start]physics[blank_end]." - Richard Dawkins - The [blank_start]Blind Watchmaker[blank_end] ([blank_start]1986[blank_end])

"Belief in God is seen to be '[blank_start]self-replicating[blank_end] information'." - [blank_start]Richard Dawkins[blank_end] - The Blind Watchmaker (19[blank_start]86[blank_end]) #2

"This world, for all he knows, is very [blank_start]faulty[blank_end] and imperfect, compared to a [blank_start]superior[blank_end] standard; and was only the first [blank_start]rude[blank_end] essay of some [blank_start]infant[blank_end] deity who afterwards abandoned it." - Hume - [blank_start]Dialogue[blank_end] Concerning Natural [blank_start]Religion[blank_end] (17[blank_start]79[blank_end])

Even "if the [blank_start]universe[blank_end] was or is caused to exist by something [blank_start]outside itself[blank_end]" - not necessary God of [blank_start]classical theism[blank_end] - [blank_start]Anthony[blank_end] Flew

Card [blank_start]shuffling[blank_end] [blank_start]machine[blank_end] analogy - Swinburne ~ Response to [blank_start]Hume[blank_end]'s Criticisms

"The [blank_start]ozone layer[blank_end] is a mighty proof of the Creator's [blank_start]forethought[blank_end]. Could anyone attribute this [blank_start]device[blank_end] to a chance evolutionary process? [...] gives every [blank_start]evidence[blank_end] of a plan." - Arthur [blank_start]Brown[blank_end] - Footprints of God (19[blank_start]43[blank_end])

qua - "as [blank_start]relating[blank_end] to" (Latin) "qua [blank_start]regularity[blank_end]" - universe behaves according to some [blank_start]order[blank_end] ~ ([blank_start]Aquinas[blank_end]*) "qua [blank_start]purpose[blank_end]" - universe was [blank_start]designed[blank_end] to fulfill a purpose ~ ([blank_start]Paley[blank_end]*) * - (use aspects of both but mainly)