a) Explain key ideas in the Design Argument for the existence of God. (30 Marks) b) Assess the view that science has made the Design Argument a failure. (15 Marks) “With such signs of forethought in the design of living creature‚ can you doubt they are the work of choice or design?” (Socrates) The Design argument looks at the order and purpose‚ or telos‚ in the world and states that it implies that there must be a designer who made the world ‘just right’ for human existence. Religious believers
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population growth. He said "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man". His views became leading in his field. Most importantly is that the forerunner of evolutionary biology Charles Darwin read his works pre ‘On the Origons of the Species’. Coincidences between the two men’s thinking is undeniably apparent. Not directly related to this but relevant is the philosopher Herbert Spencer. Who further developed a conception of evolution
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Free Response #2 Both Lamarckism and Darwinism were theories of evolution rooted in the concept of adaptation and an organisms response to environmental changes‚ however they differed in the mechanisms of how it happens. Lamarckism is in support of a theory that organisms evolve by acquiring favorable characteristics in response to their environment and directly pass them onto their offspring. In addition‚ according to Lamarckism‚ genetic variation occurs in a favorable direction‚ meaning that
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¬ In the 19th centaury Darwin claimed that women have been subordinate since the beginning of time. With this in mind‚ Darwin’s theory on evolution was very influential on many individuals not only because it changed the way individuals thought about species‚ but also changed their own perspectives on gender and its limitations. As a matter of fact‚ Darwin’s perspective over evolution has had an enormous impact on Kenneth P. Oakley. Consequently‚ Oakley takes Darwin theory of evolution and adds
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There are many stereotypes associated with birth order. We often hear how the oldest child is bossy‚ the middle child is rebellious‚ the youngest child is spoiled‚ or the only child does not know how to share. However‚ in one way or another these stereotypes hold some truth. Growing up with a father who is a marriage and family therapist‚ I have always had an understating of my own personality‚ and that of my family members. As the eldest child‚ there has always been a set of expectation that innately
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Katie Wyatt 20th October Examine the key strengths of the Design Argument for the existence of God The Design Argument can be split into two sides: design qua purpose and design qua regularity. The key idea of design qua purpose comes from William Paley. He used analogy as the basis for his argument‚ noting how the complex design of a watch allows all the parts to work together perfectly to achieve its purpose. He then noted the complexity‚ order and purpose of the universe‚ stating that "every
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stripping can thus be viewed as an evolutionary response (Egri et al.‚ 2011). Any discussion regarding the evolutionary purpose of zebra stripes is inevitably traced back to Darwin and Wallace. While Wallace suggested that zebra stripes developed as a camouflaging mechanism against attacks from predators in tall grass‚ Darwin refuted this explanation because zebras inhabited savannahs not grasslands. Due to the significant curiosity surrounding zebra stripes‚ many alternative theories have been extended
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On the fourth document‚ they discussed about the present day landscape that offers few clues about the ecosystem over day. But what is known is the volcanic rock from the site where Lucy is found contains pollen of 3 million year old plants. One of the said professors there is hoping that pollen analysis will provide will provide further insights in the Lucy’s habitat. A huge amount of rice pollen had emerged form the rock along with of a number of trees. The last part of the video talks about
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The term biology is derived from the Greek word βίος‚ bios‚ "life" and the suffix -λογία‚ -logia‚ "study of."[4] The Latin form of the term first appeared in 1736 when Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) used biologi in his Bibliotheca botanica. It was used again in 1766 in a work entitled Philosophiae naturalis sive physicae: tomus III‚ continens geologian‚ biologian‚ phytologian generalis‚ by Michael Christoph Hanov‚ a disciple of Christian Wolff. The first German use‚ Biologie‚ was used in a 1771 translation
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extravagant their feathered displays‚ he reasoned‚ the greater their chances of attracting a peahen. But when he tried to account for the human propensity to weep‚ Darwin found himself at a loss. "We must look at weeping as an incidental result‚ as purposeless as the secretion of tears from a blow outside the eye‚" he wrote in 1872. In this Darwin was almost certainly wrong. In recent decades‚ scientists have offered several accounts of how the capacity for tears may have given early hominids an adaptive
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