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Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Teleological Arguments
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Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Teleological Arguments There are many different arguments that stem from the Teleological Argument, which are a special form of the Cosmological Argument. The arguments came into being, when people tried to answer the following questions: 'Why is the Universe as it is?' and secondly, 'Why is the Universe ordered, regular and beautiful?' These arguments reject the fact that the Universe was created by chance, as it is too improbable to be reasonable. The two main arguments that I will be looking at in this essay were established by William Paley and David Hume. Hume, the earlier of the two philosophers, criticised arguments looking at the nature around us and using that as proof for the existence of God (such as Paley's theories). He does this in 'Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion'. He uses different character to represent different things, as a literary device, to put across...
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