My “On the Proofs of God’s Existence” is now republished at Britain’s Church and State site: “The Design Argument has some logical force and must be taken seriously. At the same time, is the best of a bad lot of arguments that attempt to prove the existence of God … Read more here. [Related: “Defending […]
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The core idea of the Design Argument is that to explain the cause-and-effect order of the natural world, we must appeal to a divine Designer: the complexity of reality cannot be the product of random chance, so there must be a powerful intelligence behind it all that brought order into existence and keeps the operation
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[The text of William Paley’s famous analogy is below (and here is a PDF version). Here is my video-lecture discussion of the traditional Argument from Design. And my article-length discussion of the argument is posted here.] William Paley The Watch and the Watchmaker [From Natural Theology, or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the
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From Part 2 of Professor Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course. Here he presents one of the classic arguments for the existence of God and the consequent counter arguments over its strength. Clips 1-8: Previous: Comparing the two stories. Next: The argument from evil. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main
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