N5 Teleological Arguments

What is an argument?

• Where two people disagree about whether something is true.

• Two statements that aim to show that a conclusion is true.

• A series of statements that aims to demonstrate the truth of a conclusion.

• A series of statements that aim to convince or persuade.

What conclusion do teleological arguments aim to establish?

• God definitely exists.

• God probably exists.

• God does not exist.

• God might exist.

What's the basic idea behind teleological arguments?

• The world has a purpose so it must have a designer.

• Certain features of the world need an explanation - it's too unlikely to have occurred by chance.

• The existence of universe needs an explanation - it couldn't have come from nothing.

• Certain features of the world need an explanation - it's impossible that it occurred by chance.

What features suggest that something was designed?

• Complexity, order, regularity, intricacy, beauty.

• Order, symmetry, regularity, intricacy, purpose.

• Complexity, order, regularity, intricacy, purpose.

• Purpose, beauty, complexity, order, regularity.

Paley's teleological argument is...

• a priori

• a posteriori

• priori

• posteriori

An a posteriori argument is...

• A type of argument where one or more of the premises are based on experience/ observations of the world.

• A type of argument where one or more of the premises uses a comparison with something elese.

• A type of argument where one or more of the premises can be justified without experience.

• A type of argument where all the premises are based on experience/ observations of the world.

An analogical argument is...

• An argument which uses accepted similarities between two things to prove the conclusion that there is some further similarity.

• An argument which compares two things to support the conclusion that they are similar.

• An argument which compares two things to prove the conclusion that they are similar.

• An argument which uses accepted similarities between two things to support the conclusion that some further similarity exists.

What features does the watch possess that would make us think it had an intelligent designer?

• Order, complexity, design.

• Intricacy, complexity, purpose.

• Complexity, design, purpose.

• Purpose, intricacy, predictability.

What is the conclusion of Paley's argument?

• The natural world must have an intelligent designer... God.

• There must be a first cause of the univserse, itself uncaused... God.

• The natural world, like the watch, must have had an intelligent designer, except on an even greater scale... God.

• The natural world, like the watch, must have had a designer, except on an even greater scale... God.

Why does Paley think we would assume the stone had always been there?

• It doesn't have any features that suggest it has a purpose.

• It doesn't have any purpose.

• It's a natural object.

• It occurs too often in nature.