Teleological Argument on the Existence of God

Teleological Argument on the Existence of paragonIn todays society there are many grounds surrounding the uncertainty does divinity exist?. One of these is the teleological argument. The world around us is very intricate, from snowflakes to plain old rocks, much like the items we ourselves create. Many muckle nowadays and throughout history (myself included) noticed this trend and think round how our world is structured and detailed in a way that when examine closely, looks as though it mustve been designed in ramble to exist at any. Nothing we create that is mixed (a computer chip/ remain) is there by chance, they had to be designed, it had to be in an elaborate way placed together in aim to create said object. If this is true of manmade objects, then sure as shooting everything that surrounds has to be created by an capable being too? These thoughts were brought together by William Paley and form what is cognise as the teleological argument in philosophy.A rock is except as complicated and mosaic like as a watch that has been painstakingly designed by hand when viewed on a quantum level, this thought process is fully explained and examined in the watchmakers analogy which suggests that if a watch was designed, then surely each(prenominal) that is intricate in nature must surely harbour an ultimate precedent. Paley himself began to consider this argument while thinking about religion, how immortal fits into the creation of the universe and everything in it. The theory that all things must be created, otherwise bangn as the intelligent design theory, has been debated and supported by numerous philosophers throughout the ages, from St Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century, through the movement in the 16th and 17th centuries led by the likes of William Derham, to upstart day philosophical theorists and evolutionary biologists such as eminent agnostic Richard Dawkins. The earliest cited versions of this argument are associated with Socrates in ancient Greece, although it has been argued that his ideas were influenced by rather philosophical arguments. Plato, his student, and Aristotle, developed complex methodologies around the idea that the universe has an intelligent designer.William Paley was an English churchman and Christian apologist who lived in the mid-18th century to the other(a) 19th century, his treatise and lectures (that were delivered to such notable philosophers as John Locke) on moral philosophy, concerned themselves with proving the innovation of perfection. He believed that the complexity and order of all things could not establish come about as a matter of chance, and that all things within the universe seem to prevail been designed with a usance in mind. In Paleys mind the only thing that would make sense impression in order to explain this would be a deity, the Christian idol of his religion. This is in direct opposition to Darwins theory of intrinsic selection and evolution. utilize t he watchmakers analogy Paley suggested The marks of design are too strong to be got over. Design must pee had a designer. That designer must dedicate been a person. That person is GOD. In this theory the watch is a metaphor for the universe God is to the universe as Watchmaker is to the watch. Even if we didnt know where the watch from the analogy came from, we could still infer that it was made by someone or something with a specific purpose in mind because of its complexity and function. This crumb be transferred to the origin/creation of the universe and things we cant barely explain and since we have no definitive answers as to how to universe was created, we can assume the same.Paley did not accept that the organism of things such as natural disasters or immorality in the world as a replication argument for his theory or as secern of a creators vixenish intent or bad design. After all, even the most intricately designed things can be broken or go upon in certain circu mstances. A watch, despite its intricate design big businessman sometimes malfunction which does not disprove the fact it had been created with intent and purpose. He believed that everything in the universe (natural or man-made) has an order. For example, the galaxy rolls its centre, just as the planets orbit the sun and an electron orbits an atom. Everything has a pattern, a structure, no matter how uncomplicated or intricate it is they are in everything you look at or do. This order, Paley argued, is proof of his argument saying that God exists and is the ultimate creator of everything.The stinting philosopher David Hume, who was a relative contemporary to Paley, disagreed with the idea of the intelligent design argument being proof of Gods existence, which he thought had a complete pretermit of evidence. Hume strongly believed in empiricism (that everything comes from our senses) and thought that rational thought and the laws of nature proved that miracles werent a possibili ty. He also argued that an orderly universe was not proof of a creator and that even if there was a God, compulsory deity or designer we couldnt possibly know anything about it or prove its existence. He thought that if there was a creator, why did it have to be God? Could there be more than one creator/God? The design argument does nothing to prove the existence of God in the traditional sense, that being a God who is omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence (all good, all knowing and always there). Perhaps this deity isnt the ultimate being and the design argument does nothing to either prove or disprove the existence of an all-powerful God.The fact that wickedness exists in any form and is everywhere, suggests that God is either all-powerful but not completely good or he has good intentions but is not able to eradicate evil and isnt all-powerful. Hume uses this as counter-argument to the idea of an omniscient God as an all-good and kind beau ideal wouldnt inflict needless pa in on people/sentient beings that have done nothing wrong. It doesnt make sense, why would God make us with the ability to choose good or evil in order to bring home the bacon us to receive eternal life and then vindicate us as soon as we make our own choices? If God existed (in the traditional sense) then the existence of evil, even in the tiniest amount, would contradict what the traditional Christian God is known as and stands for because you cannot be all-good, all-powerful and all-present if you allow evil and suffering to occur.Whilst Paleys theory attempts to explain the existence of an ordered and complex universe via his intelligent design argument many other philosophers have disagreed and came up with their own theories (Hume) which counter what Paley argued and tried to explain. Hume doesnt deny that there is a God or intelligent designer, but he discredits Paley by talk of the town about rational thought and the problem of evil which seems to further gain apart Pale ys already rather flawed argument. He also contest the assumption that everything that exists must have a creator or a cause for existence. Primarily, Hume argued that a theory represented as a best possible explanation, such as Paleys, showed a complete lack of evidence to support it and instead raised many more questions than it answered.To conclude, I do not believe that the teleological argument proves or disproves the existence of God, I do however believe that it is a matter of perspective and person-to-person judgement when it comes down to which side to believe/be on. Humes argument seems to me to be the more logical argument between the two, as it has less loopholes and flaws when compared to the teleological side. However, contrary to his reputation as The Great Infidel, Hume did nor categorically deny the existence of God, but argued that it cannot either be proved, nor disproved, which allows room for interpretation depending on your viewpoint.