Design Argument

Question 1

Paley’s book is called…

Answer 1

Natural theology

Question 2

The world is made correctly for…

Answer 2

Human life

Question 3

The argument is a posteriori and _________

Answer 3

Inductive

Question 4

Paley compares the world to a…

Answer 4

Watch

Question 5

Thomas Aquinas’ analogy

Answer 5

An arrow flying through the sky I given a purpose by the archer who fired it.

Question 6

The universe has beneficial order and could not …

Answer 6

Happen by chance

Question 7

Aquinas quote

Answer 7

‘Now whatever lacks knowledge can not move towards an end’

Question 8

Anthropic principle

Answer 8

• The beauty of natural laws suggest that they did not happen by chance
• The existence of nature of the physical universe is proof of the existence of a designer
• God is the ‘total explanation’ for the design of the universe

Question 9

Aesthetic Principle

Answer 9

The existence of an intelligent designer is found not just in the order of the universe, but in its beauty - nature, music, art and literature

Question 10

Swinburne

Answer 10

Puts forward a new form of the argument because of the rise of scientific thought. He calls this the argument from Temporal Order. Here he uses the anthropic principle to argue that the order of the world and universe.

Question 11

Aesthetic Principle quote - David Ford 20thC

Answer 11

‘Beauty is the last thought of theology’

Question 12

Opening Essay Quote - Socrates

Answer 12

‘With such signs of forethought in the design of living creature, can you doubt they are the work of choice or design?’