evaluation of teleological/desoign arguments Flashcards
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what is a design/teleological argument
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an argument for god as the mind/intelligence/designer which explains the order we find in reality/the universe (i.e. spatial order and or temporal order)
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what is spatial order
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patterns of order within something in space at one instant of time (e.g. arrangements of the parts in the human body, the eye or a cell) which allows them to fulfil a function
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what is temporal order
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patterns of behaviour of objects overtime (e.g. their behaviour in accordance with the laws of nature/science, those laws of nature/science themselves
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