Sentences with phrase «argument from design»

Writing near the end of his life, he wrote that «the old argument from design in....

Where else since the 17th century scientific «Revolution» has a prominent Catholic thinker uttered statements such as «the discoveries of modern physics actually strengthen the ancient argument from design», or «the idea of «purpose» in nature is by no means dead....

Paley's argument from design Eco-systems and inter-connectedness Phi - the divine proportion throughout nature Is it evidence of design?

The fifth proof is the Argument from Design and is really the only argument anyone uses these days.

«Throughout this post we've seen all manner of TAG (Kalam's Cosmological Argument, Argument from Design, Argument from Complexity, Argument from Morality, Logical Absolutes... etc.) every one of which has been thoroughly refuted».

See Freeman Dyson's essay «The Argument from Design» in Disturbing the Universe (Harper and Row, 1979).

Oakes implies by comparing him to William Paley, to apparent design in biology as an «argument from design» to prove the existence of God.

Which is why Msgr. Knox can say: «I don't believe that St. Thomas meant to use the argument from design when he gave his fifth proof.

Naturalistic explanations have already been successful enough in explaining natural order to conclude with assurance that the argument from design simply does not carry much weight any more.

The man they really need to consult is, once again, Cardinal Newman, who leveled devastating artillery against the argument from design, especially in The Idea of a University, which despite its well - deserved fame has long gone underutilized by philosophers of religion, perhaps because his critique of their work is so devastating.

Sonar in bats, eyesight in eagles, sunlight energy capture in plants, and adaptations in general had only one kind of explanation before Darwin: the argument from design.

The greatest minds in the history of Western Civilization, from Plato and Aristotle to Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Boyle, all believed that the argument from design was the only reasonable explanation for adaptations in animals and plants.

As for the argument from design, see how Darwinian ideas have revolutionized it.

The «argument from design» reasons, from the fact that Nature's laws are mathematical, and her parts benevolently adapted to each other, that this cause is both intellectual and benevolent.

The argument from design / causality remains unaffected.

Acknowledging that Darwin's book «was thought by many to have an injurious bearing on the argument from design,» Cooke's idea was to bypass biology entirely, thereby eluding the grasp of Darwin's invisible hand.

This is not an argument from design (in that case, it is not possible to find more than that what is given in nature itself); it is a true transcendental argument, looking for the conditions of possibility of those features that are truly exhibited by the world in which we live, and without which that world would not be conceivable.

It has not, however, been as prominent in the actual life and thought of religious communities — even in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when the argument from design was frequently presented by Christian apologists.

The Teleological argument, sometimes called the argument from Design, starts from the signs of order and purpose in the world.

Ruse offers a history and discussion of teleological thinking — from the introduction of the argument from design, through Darwin's recognition of natural selection, to current disputes within evolutionary biology and present claims of «intelligent design» advocates.

Complete lesson with a range of activities exploring the argument from design.

Lesson 3: Children should learn about the problems posed by the argument from design and to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the argument.

Lesson 2: Children should learn about the argument from design and to reflect on their own experience of creation.

Could one find a utopia — or a god — by an argument from design?