Design Argument

Question 1

St Thomas Aquinas

Answer 1

Italian Theologian
Summa Theologica
Intelligent Design
Five Ways
"They achieve their end not fortuitously, but designedly"

Question 2

William Paley

Answer 2

English philosopher & theist
Natural theology exposition of the teleological argument for the existence of God
Watchmaker analogy
“There must have existed…an artificier or artificiers who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer”

Question 3

Richard Swinburne

Answer 3

Modern British philosopher
Cause for everything except universe = simple and elegant explanation
7 features
‘the existence of God’
“If there is no cause of this, it would be a most extraordinary coincidence-too extraordinary for any rational person to believe”

Question 4

F.R. Tennant

Answer 4

Modern Theologian
Aesthetic&Anthropic principles
‘Philosophical Theology’
“Beauty seems to be superfluous and to have little survival value”