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Teleological and Design Arguments
In Charles Taliaferro, Paul Draper & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 375–384 (2010)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Traditional Analogical Arguments Arguments to the Best Explanation Arguments from the Sciences Probability and World Hypotheses Is the Designer God? Works cited.
teleological and design arguments teleological arguments, case for existence of God ‐ based on examples of apparent design or purposiveness in the natural world design arguments appealing to features of the universe ‐ as its beauty, its orderly or law‐like operations traditional analogical arguments early versions of argument ‐ taking the form of an analogy between human productions and the universe as a whole David Hume, focusing on finding differences between products of human design and universe as a whole explanatory model of argumentation ‐ allowing for cumulative case in favor of a theistic hypothesis naturalism ‐ offering no explanation for causal order of the universe arguments from the sciences ‐ “more recent strategy fine‐tuning” of fundamental forces
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