Teleological Argument for God's Existence

Question 1

Intro:

Answer 1

Most popular theory, looking at order and purpose to see God

Question 2

Basics:

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Teleo is derived from telos, purpose. It’s the idea that nature is beneficial to us so it must be designed, or it seems designed and that’s enough

Question 3

Aquinas:

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Everything has a purpose, but some stuff needs other stuff to make it happen, and the other stuff is God cause only he’s powerful enough to do that, links to Aristotle’s Prime Mover with purpose. Everything follows natural law, stuff that follows natural law has a purpose, if something can’t think it has to be directed to its purpose by something that can, therefore God directs everything towards its purpose - he didn’t provide any evidence tho :/

Question 4

Hume’s layout:

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NOTE: Hume disagreed, but his explanation of it to disagree with was so good it’s used to explain it now
Everything in the world is like a machine, including the world itself, and machines are designed, and the world is too intricate to be human designed so it must be God designed

Question 5

Paley:

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Argued with Hume after he was dead, if you kick a stone you don’t wonder why it’s there but you do if you kick a watch cause it’s made for a purpose and so someone made it

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Argument TO design:

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Nature seems to plan in advance for humanity - everything seems perfectly set up, and the chance of humans developing as we did by chance is very slim, so God must have coordinated it

Question 7

Hume’s criticisms:

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Nature is Not like a machine, nature is organic not mechanical, similar effects don’t imply similar causes, makes God more human than divine, leads to a non-moral God cause there’s bad stuff here too, evolution disproves it (not a Hume argument)