Evaluate The Design Argument Analysis

Critically evaluate the design argument
The design argument, also known as the teleological argument essentially means that the universe and everything within it has a specific design and purpose. (Perry, Bratman, Fischer 57) The Greek term; ‘telos’ is the derivative form of teleology which means end or purpose. This argument is entirely a posteriori and we learn about the existence of God through experience and empirical knowledge. This argument was developed by Thomas Aquinas and his fifth version. In this essay, I will explore the merits and flaws of this viewpoint by quoting Aquinas, William Paley, Richard Swinburne, Mark Twain, Frederick Tennant and David Hume who contributed comprehensively to this idea.

Thomas Aquinas raised his fifth version (Perry, Bratman, Fischer 45-46) which stated that the natural world could not simply be an accident and that it must have some kind of designer, which he believed to be God. Basically, he understood that almost everything acts as an end or purpose however;
He proposed an unsound analogy as he stated that there is evidence of design, but to conclude that God was the designer goes beyond evidence and our understanding. He strongly argued against Paley’s watch analogy in which a machine can be compared to the world and claimed that both these analogies are far too distinct and cannot be compared. Hume stated that our world is composed of vegetable and animal and that this universe is more organic than it is mechanical. ‘The world plainly resembles more an animal or a vegetable than it does a watch’ He stated that the world could essentially be compared to a