Teleological Arguement Flashcards

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Explain the basis of Aquinas’ fifth way?

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Something that lacks intelligence can’t move on its own without something intelligent moving t
Archer analogy
Payleys watchmaker

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Tenants anthropic and aesthetic

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Survival
Evolution
Natural selection

Beauty
Enjoy
No specific
Omnibenovelent

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Criticisms of teleological argument?

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Lack experience
Analogies require experience
Can not compare building a house to the universe
Authentic and apparent - appear to have a design when it is just how it is
Big Bang
Charles Darwin

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