Key Design Argument For The Existence Of God
Outline and assess the key design argument of the existence of God ?
The design argument is concerned to find the meaning or purpose in this world; they seek to move from facts about the world to God. Like the cosmological argument, the design argument draws back to arguments put forward by Socrates and Plato who said that ‘the human body, with all its principles and elements must owe its origin…of Zeus’. The design argument considers a number of issues for example; why is the universe the way that it is? As expected, it has undergone many different transformations that have transformed it into a theistic argument (on that seeks to prove the existence of the God of classical theism). It suggests that certain aspects in the universe are …show more content…
His argument is influenced by the observation that the beneficial order cannot be explained because the universe is not self-explanatory and does not have its individual intelligence in its right.
Richard Swinburne (The Existence of God) suggested three groups:
1. The anthropic principle - Arguments from a certain pattern of order in the Universe.
2. Arguments from Providence - Arguments from God’s guidance or fate/luck/destiny.
3. The Argument from Beauty otherwise called The aesthetic argument.
The anthropic principle proposes that the reason and purpose for the universe is the support of human life: ‘As we look out into the Universe and identify the many accidents…the Universe must in some case have know we were coming’ (Freeman Dyson, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle). It also demonstrates that the design argument need not reject the principles of evolution in order to assume a designing God. However, theistic supporters of evolution argue that scientific principles alone are not enough to explain a perfectly balanced natural order that
The design argument is concerned to find the meaning or purpose in this world; they seek to move from facts about the world to God. Like the cosmological argument, the design argument draws back to arguments put forward by Socrates and Plato who said that ‘the human body, with all its principles and elements must owe its origin…of Zeus’. The design argument considers a number of issues for example; why is the universe the way that it is? As expected, it has undergone many different transformations that have transformed it into a theistic argument (on that seeks to prove the existence of the God of classical theism). It suggests that certain aspects in the universe are …show more content…
His argument is influenced by the observation that the beneficial order cannot be explained because the universe is not self-explanatory and does not have its individual intelligence in its right.
Richard Swinburne (The Existence of God) suggested three groups:
1. The anthropic principle - Arguments from a certain pattern of order in the Universe.
2. Arguments from Providence - Arguments from God’s guidance or fate/luck/destiny.
3. The Argument from Beauty otherwise called The aesthetic argument.
The anthropic principle proposes that the reason and purpose for the universe is the support of human life: ‘As we look out into the Universe and identify the many accidents…the Universe must in some case have know we were coming’ (Freeman Dyson, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle). It also demonstrates that the design argument need not reject the principles of evolution in order to assume a designing God. However, theistic supporters of evolution argue that scientific principles alone are not enough to explain a perfectly balanced natural order that