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Class Notes - The Design Argument
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This document highlights all the key aspects of the Design Argument. It details both the information and the evaluation points, in a clear, concise and aesthetic way.
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had
faith God which
'
in
people traditionally
-
-
means they believed without
having any empirical
evidence to support their belief
' '
This is what Price would call belief in
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Philosophers have tried to set out
arguments for
-
why it is reasonable to believe that God exists -
to support the
faith that people had
Some of these
arguments
inductive others
-
are ,
are deductive .
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sometimes known as
teleological arguments
Plato and Aristotle had so did
versions , Aquinas
For the spec
only William Paley 's is required from
'
,
Natural
Theology 118021
Paley 's argument is inductive and a posterior ,
and
starts with observation -
that there is evidence of
the world It
design in . works towards a
conclusion based on these observations -
that this
was
by designer which is God
caused a ,
.
It's also
an
analogical argument an analogy is a
-
comparison between 2 things where similar
features are noted .
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