Aquinas' design argument?
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can someone please tell me what was the design argument by Thomas Aquinas?
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(Original post by Itshafsaa)
can someone please tell me what was the design argument by Thomas Aquinas?
can someone please tell me what was the design argument by Thomas Aquinas?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebit...entsrev1.shtml
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(Original post by Itshafsaa)
can someone please tell me what was the design argument by Thomas Aquinas?
can someone please tell me what was the design argument by Thomas Aquinas?
Basically to do with how non-intelligent beings/matter cannot function towards its purpose unless its guided by an intelligent being.
His example was the archer and the arrow; the arrow being the non-intelligent being/matter and the archer being God, guiding the arrow.
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(Original post by Rk2k14)
It was by William Paley (Cosmological- Aquinas)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebit...entsrev1.shtml
It was by William Paley (Cosmological- Aquinas)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebit...entsrev1.shtml
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(Original post by Professor Purple)
I think OP was referring to the teleogical argument Aquinas made.
I think OP was referring to the teleogical argument Aquinas made.
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(Original post by professor purple)
the fifth way in his book 'summa theologica'.
Basically to do with how non-intelligent beings/matter cannot function towards its purpose unless its guided by an intelligent being.
His example was the archer and the arrow; the arrow being the non-intelligent being/matter and the archer being god, guiding the arrow.
the fifth way in his book 'summa theologica'.
Basically to do with how non-intelligent beings/matter cannot function towards its purpose unless its guided by an intelligent being.
His example was the archer and the arrow; the arrow being the non-intelligent being/matter and the archer being god, guiding the arrow.


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I meant the Teleological argument, sorry.
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