Video: Intelligent Design

Instructions:

Watch the following video on intelligent design. You may use the information in this video on the quiz, the discussion board, and in your essays.

While watching this short (9:35) video, take notes and think about the following questions:

  1. Why do many modern philosophers find Aquinas' arguments flawed?
  2. Who was William Paley?
  3. Does teleology mean?
  4. What is an argument by analogy?
  5. What is the Watchmaker analogy?
  6. What are the dis-analogies to Paley's argument?
  7. What is the key scientific objection to the teleological argument?
  8. What is Swinburne's version of the teleological argument?
  9. What are fine-tuning arguments?