PHL-200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Intelligent Designer
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Paley: claims the watch has design, claims there"s an intelligent designer because the watch exhibits design. The only reasonable conclusion is that a watch has an intelligent designer. The only reasonable conclusion is that the universe has its own intelligent designer. Premise 1: the universe as a whole and throughout its parts exhibits complex design. Premise 2: deductive: necessarily, if a subject has design the subject has an intelligent designer. Inductive: the best explanation of what causes something to have design is an intelligent designer. Design: a system of components, components have a function in the system (a proper function, the whole system has a proper function (a purpose) What exhibits design: human artifacts, biology. Intelligent designer: cognitively creates something to have design by a plan. Priori: not empirically veri able or falsi able; can"t deny without contradicting yourself. Posteriori: empirically veri able or falsi able; can be denied without contradiction.
