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'Darwin's theory of Evolution undermined the Argument from Design'. Is this true? The Argument from Design assumes the existence of a Higher Intelligence who designed the universe with a sense of purpose. Pre Darwin, it was thought that this was evident in the apparent design of nature. Darwin's discovery of natural selection explained the complexities of the adaptive qualities evident in nature without the need to postulate an Omnipotent being. This became the more persuasive alternative. Post Darwin, the revised Argument from Design claims that; although Darwin probably gave a correct account for the process of evolution, it is not an ultimate one: The ultimate explanation and simplest hypothesis is that the process was masterminded by a designer God. William Paley (1743-1805) believed that human and animal bodies were like extremely complicated machines and such beautiful organisation could not be produced by chance. He famously coined the analogy of a watchmaker...

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