A resonable person should not find the teleological arguement persuasive. The teleological arguement states that a greater being must of desgined all life on Earth. However, the Earth contains a lot more random occurances and chaos than just a foul proof design. The Earth itself was fromed from random collosions and with the help of gravity, the Earth was able to gather the left over materials from these collisons. For years, the Earth was a molten rock that held no signs of life. Then one day an other planet smashed into the Earth and broke into what is know our moon. With the moon in place only then did life began to present itself on Earth. The oceans developed and changed Earth's layout. This can be seen as a designer begininng to construct …show more content…
Supporters within the teleological arguement like to use Paley's watch arguement as justifaction for an intellgent design. However, there's a fault in this arguemtent. Paley's view and example of a watch show funtionlaity with all the pieces of the watch falling together from that of a man made object. Paley's view and that of supporters of the teleological argrumnet lack the complex nature of the Earth. A watch is a single mechansim that with careful design works to tell time. The Earth doesn't have these parts, it has adaptation and many more factors at play rather than a designers intent. David Hume's quote comparing the Earth to a plant is much more accurate on the way the world works. The Earth like a plant takes time to grow and it can easily be altered if the contitions are off to nurture the life it contains. There is no functionalty or purpose for Earth only that it exists. If a god created the Earth then they would of created a world that would be stable and perfect order. Instead we have a world that is a mixture of different ecosyetmes and possibilites for both creation and …show more content…
Followers claim that such impressive patterns like mathmamatical equaitons and exact numbers that show up continously must be designed by an intelligent being. There order that surrounds the world that allow the life on Earth to exist like how the tilt of the Earth is just right and how the rotaion of the Earth itself allows for seasons. These are amazing feats none the less, but even in a random, chaotic universe order would still develop. "There is such a thing as an ordered, constant, self-perpetuating state of affairs and once such a state came about by chance it would tend to stay for a long time, otherwise it would not be order" (Ash). The fact remains that we are living in such a world that holds both order and chaos simultnously counters the arguement that we live in a perfect world. This amount of order took billions of years to develope and even still there is a chance that the Earth will restart all over again. All it takes is a little bit of chaos that to shatter the progress that has been made. The randomness and chaos that are percived as negative are also nessicary for the developement of life. Without chaos then life wouldn't be able to adapt the way it has nor would there be any varaity in species as a whole. Within the randomness there is order and the combination of chaos have provided the nesscasry building blocks (with a hint of luck) to create the universe and our
His second argument for design he makes a comparison between machines and humans saying that both are equally complex and it was built with a purpose in mind. If changes are made to the watch such as taking away an internal component that makes it runs, or the minute or hour hand, its purpose would suddenly change and it would no longer be a watch.
To begin with, I believe the teleological argument for the existence of God substantiates that a greater force must exist. The teleological argument comes from the philosopher Paley. The argument states that
Firstly, Paley concentrates in the process leading to the creation of the watch. The process for creating a watch is very systematic and involves knowledge of mechanical engineering, a trade known to few men. Yet, it is not necessary to know the inner workings of the watch to use it on a daily basis: it is only necessary to understand the relationship between the position of the watch's hands to the sunrise and sunset of day. Paley concludes that even though he could not create a watch, some supreme being could create such watch. In other words, anything that shows evidence of creation has a creator and such creator exists or has existed at one point in time.
William Paley found a watch on the ground and assumed that the watch was put together for a purpose. His arguments, then, lead towards the teleological argument, which starts from relatively specific observations to the crucial notion of purpose where there is an intelligent cause to the universe. Paley’s whole argument discusses how there must be a maker of the universe since there is a maker of the watch, which must be God. In contrast, a telescope has a designer, so an eye must also have a designer,
William Paley’s teleological argument (also known as the argument from design) is an attempt to prove the existence of god. This argument succeeds in proving that while existence was created by an aggregation of forces, to define these forces, as a conscious, rational, and ultimately godlike is dubious. Although the conclusions are valid, the argument makes several logical errors. The teleological argument relies on inductive reasoning, rendering the argument itself valid, but unsound. The argument fails to apply its own line of reasoning to itself, resulting in infinite regression. Beyond the scope of its logical flaws, the arguments content lacks accurate comparisons. The argument hinges on a
Teleological is the main argument for God’s existence. There is order and purpose for everything and these things work well together because ALL things were designed by God’s perfect order. The argument that we were all made in His image meaning we are made by design and God is our designer. As a gun is to a gunsmith; so is a human to God is a teleological example. He is our creator (designer) just as the gunsmith makes firearms.
The design argument is also referred to at the Teleological Argument stemmed from the Greek work ‘Telos’ meaning end or purpose. It is an ‘A posterior’ argument (from experience) based on our empirical senses and it is synthetic meaning that it is from observation. The argument is also inductive meaning there a number of possible conclusions. The main basis of the Teleological argument is based on a designer commonly known as ‘the classical God of theism’ (hereafter referred to as God)
I believe that anything that seems design has a creator, therefore Paley’s argument has a valid point. The world does not seem like it was just put there without any thought. But it looks organized, like someone (god) sat there and thought about how to created and make it function, just
Ultimately, Paley’s argument uses an inductive argument to suggest that all things with properties of intelligence and complexity must have an intelligent designer who designs them for a specific purpose.
The Teleological Argument defends the proof for the existence of a God, it is also called The Design Argument. It discusses the intelligent design in the universe. The supporting theory behind this is that the universe is so vastly complex and well balanced that only a creator could have designed it. All of the sophistication and detail could not have occurred by chance. When examining the immense universe and seeing the complexity, intricate detail, and unique order there are a variety of explanations for how it may have come to existence, however because of these complexities and order only a designer could have designed it. The basic idea of the teleological argument is that the world does have intelligent purpose, by looking at nature and seeing its order unity and designed complexity. If one is to look at all living creature, the existence of DNA shows intelligent design. Someone or something had to design the information imprinted in the DNA. There is no absolute way this could have happened by chance.Therefore, there must be an intelligent designer . There must be a God. Even if we apply scientific theory; I.e. The Big Bang theory, The teleological argument supports the existence of a big banger. This big banger has always existed; not requiring a beginning or an end.
By natural processes they can only come into being through generation. But we know that the world has not been going on forever, and so the great puzzle is the existence of the first animals and plants in 4004 BC or whenever exactly it was that animals and plants began to exist. Since they could not have come about by natural scientific processes, and since they are very similar to the machines, which certain rational agents, viz. men, make, it is very probable that they were made by a rational agent -- only clearly one more powerful and knowledgeable than men." According to this version of the teleological argument, that entity more powerful and knowledgeable than man is God.
William Paley’s Watchmaker Argument compares a watch to the universe, describing that the watch is fulfilling a purpose and its specific design permits it to function flawlessly. The universe is similar, but on a level to complex to calculate with its vast amount of works and mechanics that link together towards a purpose. As we would assume a watch was created by a watchmaker due to
The Argument from Design In William Paley’s “Argument from Design” he seeks to prove God’s existence by comparing the world and universe we live in to a machine, specifically a watch. The goal of the design argument is to prove the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent, and wholly good God through the watch analogy. The analogy tries to say that if we look at the creation of the universe like that of a watch, we can infer that it has a purpose and a designer. While this seems to be valid, there are some flaws in Paley’s argument that I will point out.
William Paley argues the existence of God by utilizing a watch analogy. Whereas, he observes the watch to create a visual when explaining the complexity of the birth of humanity and Earth. Therefore, in order for the Earth to be so complex in its maturity the creator had to be greater than the Earth. Paley begins his argument by presenting a scenario that if some individual walks upon a stone that is resting on the ground they would cursorily assume that the stone had been there since the beginning of time. Conversely, one could not assume that a watch was just recently placed on the ground. Reason being that the individual is likely to examine the interior areas of the watch. If the watch had any minor deficiencies it would lose its ability
Firstly, we shall focus on the Design (or to use its philosophically technical term, the teleological argument). There are numerous variants of the Design argument, however we shall be focusing on Paley’s version (reference 1) of this theory. Paley’s version of the Design argument is based upon the idea that by looking around at certain features of the world (for example an inanimate object like a rock or say a living creature like dolphin or a person like myself) and theorising that they are too complex and intricate to randomly just manifest. They must have been created by a higher, more intelligent power and thus, if this is accepted as being so, then this proves beyond doubt that God exists.