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.

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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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