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An 8 page paper. Does the design argument prove the existence of God? The writer uses William Paley's Statement of the Argument to present the design argument and then, cites Hume's criticisms of the argument. The writer brings St. Thomas Aquinas' argument about the designer into the discussion and concludes the design argument can prove the existence of God. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the arguments. You can easily change this into the radio talk show format when you write your own paper.] Design arguments are also known as the teleological arguments, from
telos, which is the Greek word for goal or purpose (Himma, 2006). One author said: "The design argument is the simplest, most straightforward argument for the existence of God" (Beebe,
2002). This argument can be stated in just a few, simple, easy to follow steps (Beebe, 2002). Very simply stated, the design argument for the existence of God states that
everything in nature is put together in just the right way, which suggests there was an original intelligent designer and that designer is God (Beebe, 2002). This same argument is
one of St. Thomas Aquinas five ways to prove the existence of God (Himma, 2006). Design arguments "proceed by identifying various empirical features of the world that constitute evidence of
intelligent design and inferring Gods existence as the best explanation for these features" (Himma, 2006). William Paley (1743-1805) put forth one of the most frequently-cited design arguments in history (Beebe,
2002). Paley was an Anglican priest who put forth his design argument in a text entitled Natural Theology: or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity Collected
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance without a contriver; order without choice; arrangement without anything capable
of arranging; subserviency and relation to purpose without that which could intend a purpose; means suitable to an end, and executing their office in accomplishing that end, without the end
ever having been contemplated or the means accommodated to it. Arrangement, disposition of parts, subserviency of means to an end, relation of instruments to a use imply the presence of
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