Teleologoical Argument Flashcards
what does the teleological argument believe?
everything has a telos/purpose
Aquinas’ 5th way-what does this mean?
Directing things towards a purpose
what does the 5th way suggest about the natural world?
everything obeys natural laws and these laws are predictable
who does Aquinas suggest created the world?
God- he created the world in 7 days
3 weaknesses of the 5th way
- only a christian god?
- no empirical evidence
- evolution doesn’t have a purpose
name William Paley’s example
the watch argument
give the 2 types of design argument
- Purpose
- Regularity
give all the examples of the purpose argument
- the eye
- a birds wing
- lacteals system in mammals
name all of the regularity examples
- gravity
- rotation of planets
what is Tenants “anthropic principle”?
the general order of nature suggests intellectual design rather than chance happening
what is Tenants “anaesthetic principle”?
there are things that humans can do that have no evolutionary advantage
what is the epicurean hypothesis?
everything happens by chance
who criticises the teleological argument?
David Hume
what is natural selection?
creatures evolving and changing/developing in survival and re production of genotypes
Give darwins example which criticises the teleological argument
galapagos finches
