Teleological Argument Flashcards
What is the Anthropic Principle?
Everything is tailored in a specific way to ensure the maintenance of human life
What does the Watchmaker Analogy reveal?
Complexity + Regularity = Purpose
The world did not come into existence by chance
Proof of a designer (God)
Give two examples of instances where we can see that our world is structured
Earth is uniquely placed in the Solar System to support human life
Plants take in Carbon Dioxide and give out Oxygen
What is The Fallacy of Composition?
What is the Argument of Causation?
Two things have to be in constant conjunction with one another to infer a casual relationship
The world may have been created by chance - No knowledge of a design similar to Earth
What is the Finite Matter, Infinite Time Argument?
When given infinite time random input should produce all possible outputs
Infinite Monkey Theorem
Perhaps there are an infinite number of Universes and this specific universe with these specific temporal orders is simply inevitable
The Universe is not perfect evidence
Just because the universe looks designed, does not mean that it is designed.
The presence of natural disasters suggest that the design of the universe is not as perfect as God would have made it
Triassic-Jurassic Extinction = 76 percent of all marine and terrestrial species
