Analogy

Question 1

William Paley’s analogy was what?

Answer 1

Paley’s Watch

Question 2

The watch serves as what?

Answer 2

An analogy of the world

Question 3

About that watch

Answer 3

made up of intrinsic parts that work together for a purpose with a watchmaker as it’s designer

Question 4

So how is the world like a watch?

Answer 4

made of intrinsic parts working together towards an end for the benefit of the whole which needs a designer

Question 5

the design of the watch implies a designer the design in the world implies what?

Answer 5

A great designer - which is God

Question 6

The unity of many parts that make up the universe, working for a purpose cannot be explained by what?

Answer 6

Chance

- explained by an intelligent designer - this being God

Question 7

quote from Paley?

Answer 7

“The marks of design are too strong to be got over. Design must have had a designer. That designer must have been a person. That person must have been God”

Question 8

Thomas Aquinas’ analogy?

Answer 8

An arrow and archer

- compared things working towards a goal to an arrow and archer

Question 9

Quote from Aquinas

Answer 9

“Goal directed behavior is observed in all bodies obeying natural laws, even when they lack awareness..
everything in nature, therefore, is directed to it’s goal by someone with understanding and this we call God”