The Intelligent Design Theory

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This paper examines the intelligent design theory of deistic faith. It suggests that it is a teleological argument that is constructed from a basic argument from design perspective. The paper discusses the finer points of the design argument and concludes that the argument from design is a fundamentally flawed approach to the question of the existence of God.

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"Worse for the position, not all things in the universe express any order whatsoever. The galaxies may be ordered groups of starts, but what about galactic nubulae, of which there are many more but which are significantly less ordered than spiral galaxies. The level of complexity is different for these two types of celestial organization making it difficult to comprehend when an object's behavior constitutes orderliness and when it does not. Add to this the fact that some entities in the universe are actually becoming less ordered with time--like the Sun, which is progressively breaking down over billions of years--and the notion that universe was designed to create order becomes even flimsier. It becomes difficult, or even outright impossible, to accept the argument from design perspective without a degree of faith that the designer exists in the first place. We begin to wonder whether or not proponents of this position postulated a designer to explain the ordered universe or if they have miraculously manifested a uniformly ordered universe in order to justify a belief in a divine designer."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Aquinas, Thomas. A Shorter Summa. Ed. Peter Keeft. 1993.
• Hospers, John. An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis. 4th ed. 1997.

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