Philosophy of Religion

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Teleological Argument

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1. What is the other name for the Teleological Argument?

2. What is teleos in Greek?

3. What is the classical Argument for Design?

4. What type of argument is it?

5. Describe the differences between Design qua Regularity and Design qua Purpose.

6. What was Aquinas' Fifth Way?

7. Who was William Paley? In what book did he put forward his design argument?

8. Outline the main ideas of Paley's argument.

9. Apart from the watch, what other analogies did Paley use?

10. What did Arthur Brown argue? How did this support the TA?

11. What are the main strengths of the TA?

12. What are it's weaknesses?

13. Outline Hume's ideas of the TA.

14. Does the Anthropic Principle answer some of the criticisms of the TA? If so, how?

15. Do you believe the Aesthetic Principle prove God's existence? Why/why not?

16. Describe the theory of evolution.

17. Does evolution support or reject the TA? Explain your answer.

18. What did Kant believe about the TA? Do you agree? Why/ why not?

19. Is the TA successful? Give reasons for your answer.