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:
- Why do many modern philosophers find Aquinas' arguments flawed?
- Who was William Paley?
- Does teleology mean?
- What is an argument by analogy?
- What is the Watchmaker analogy?
- What are the dis-analogies to Paley's argument?
- What is the key scientific objection to the teleological argument?
- What is Swinburne's version of the teleological argument?
- What are fine-tuning arguments?