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argument from design
noun
A teleological argument.
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The argument from design seems to be forceful.
In the 1990s several authors revived the argument from design.
The argument from design is a "creationist Ponzi scheme" that "quickly leads to metaphysical bankruptcy".
Volume II (1930) describes this ascent and gives Tennant's version of the argument from design.
If nothing else, it undercuts what has traditionally been the most powerful argument for God's existence, the "argument from design".
The argument from design was criticized by the Scottish philosopher David Hume in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779).
(Kant rejected the teleological argument for the existence of God, also known as the argument from design).
The argument from design also starts from human experience: in this case the perception of order and purpose in the natural world.
Paley's teleology thus became the basis of the modern version of the teleological argument for the existence of God, also called the argument from design.
(For additional discussion of the argument from design and its revival in the 1990s, see below Intelligent design and its critics).
The British theologian William Paley in his Natural Theology (1802) used natural history, physiology, and other contemporary knowledge to elaborate the argument from design.
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