Wednesday, 7 May 2008

Beauty! Complexity! Purpose!


The world around us is so beautiful, so complex and demonstrates such purpose it can not have appeared by accident. It must have had a designer and that designer must be God. This is the argument from design.

If you want to give a specific argument from design use William Paley's argument about the watch.
If you came across a watch in a field you would not say it had appeared there by chance. The complexity and obvious purpose of the design would lead you to conclude that the watch had a designer. The universe is far more complex than a watch and we must conclude that it too had a designer. The only being who could design such a universe is God, therefore God must exist.

Listen and watch a version of Paley's argument,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c775gk1FK8

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