Throughout the age of science and theology, there has been a constant controversial debate

This essay will not review all of the objections as this would result in overlap and repetition. The Argument from Design argues that the universe was designed by an intelligent designer, God and no further evidence is required to prove their existence. It compares Items in nature

Intelligent Design is the idea that living creatures on Earth are so complex that, they could not possibly have been created through the natural selection. It is the belief that there must be an ?intelligent designer? that created us all. This creator is usually referenced as God. However, it may also be

Question 1) C.S Lewis like many of us was skeptical about several arguments made by intelligent design alone. After many years of research, he came up with arguments that demonstrate the world was not created by a divine intelligent design alone.

The version formulated by Aquinas outline that, God is paramount important in providing direction to human beings thus, setting a clear evidence of nature of intelligent design. To some extent, the intelligent design outline God as supernatural but; extraterrestrial race could be supernatural force. With these assumptions, it is important to note that, intelligent design assumptions are not drawn directly from the Christian bible despite some facts of supernatural power.

To start, I will present the argument of the universe being similar to a machine. Cleanthes compares the universe to a machine by saying that both a machine and the universe have many parts that all work together. Because the universe and a machine are similar, they must have similar causes. These causes being an intelligent designer. An example he gives to explain this is a book. He says that a book simply does not grow from a tree, and the words don’t simply appear in logical order. There has to be a designer, someone who put the words in a way that makes

My own impression of intelligent design in nature, is that, a multiplicity of parallel interconnecting complexities exists in any life unit or component.

During the readings of the textbook “Introducing Philosophy” the topic of the argument for design was brought up, and it was very interesting to read. The text brings up different arguments and discusses whether the design argument should be taken seriously by Darwinians. Different arguments are brought up by philosophers such as William Paley and David Hume. After doing some research online, I found an article by William Dembski called “Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information” which defines what information is and points to intelligent causes for the design of our universe.

The first objection says that natural processes could have made these complex organisms and the complex material world that we live in today from much simpler organisms and a much simpler universe. The argument is not persuasive because an intelligent designer could have created the universe with a specific plan, set natural processes in play as part of the creation of the universe, and let

Within many countries, notably the United States, there is a perpetual debate on whether creationism and intelligent design are valid alternative theories that should be embodied within the curriculum of science classes. ‘Through local school boards, sympathetic politicians, and well-funded organizations, a strong movement has developed to encourage the teaching of the latest incarnation of creationism—intelligent design—as a scientifically credible theory alongside evolution in science classes.’ Creationism is the rejection of evolution in favor of supernatural design (Pennock, 2003) and the belief that there is a God. Intelligent design stems from this understanding and defends that many biological functions are far too complex to have been created by evolution - in which a higher being was involved in designing them. Evolution holds a great significance in the education system today and is a fundamental idea within biology classes all around the world. The contending viewpoints suggest creationism and intelligent design should be taught parallel to the theory of evolution and hold similar significance within the science lessons of high school students. In turn, many biologists have fought against legal cases in the hope to cease the implementation of these substitute theories and to keep them out of biology classrooms.

My reasoning for backing up intelligent design is because I believe in God. In the Bible it explains how God made everything within seven days, such as the earth and sea. God said, let there be light and there was light, he called the light Day and the darkness Night, and the evening and morning were the first day. He

Continuing in his article, McCloskey implies evolution has shown that there is no need for a designer. If evolution were true, in no way does it completely discard the possibility of an intelligent designer. Evan and Manis (2009) refute this theory McCloskey has in two ways. First, a creator cannot be ruled out in evolution because the process of how everything came to be would not be able to be comprehended mechanistically. “Chance variation and natural selection are inadequate to explain the order which has evolved. Instead it seems more plausible to see the process as one guided, at least at certain points, by intelligent design” (Evans & Manis, 2009, pp. 82-83). Secondly, even though evolution is mechanistic could possibly be the way in

Humans have came a long way in debating the origin of life. According to the creation theory, God, which we call an intelligent designer, created the world. Some might say life just happened by itself, but the truth is, life is too complex for that to happen. Life consists of a vast number of complex molecules, in order to form life; every single atom must come together in a very specific pattern. However, scientists have said that the possibility for it to happen is very low. It further supports the existence of an intelligent designer, as only someone far more superior to humans can create this reality.

Sir Isaac Newton once said, “Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion”. As a major contributor to modern physics with his discovery of gravity, Isaac Newton held a convicting belief in an intelligent designer who created the universe and humanity. According to Discovery Institute (n.d.), “The theory of intelligent design holds that certain feature of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection” (para.1). Although intelligent design is quickly becoming regarded as a scientific theory with more than 50 peer-reviewed journals published, as of now there is no tolerance for it to be taught in America’s

Firstly, we shall focus on the Design (or to use its philosophically technical term, the teleological argument). There are numerous variants of the Design argument, however we shall be focusing on Paley’s version (reference 1) of this theory. Paley’s version of the Design argument is based upon the idea that by looking around at certain features of the world (for example an inanimate object like a rock or say a living creature like dolphin or a person like myself) and theorising that they are too complex and intricate to randomly just manifest. They must have been created by a higher, more intelligent power and thus, if this is accepted as being so, then this proves beyond doubt that God exists.

Everything about the fundamental structure and systems of the universe occurred in such a way that allows life to exist. In other terms, and how this argument received its name, everything from physical constants in physics to the balance of energy has been fine-tuned to permit life. The fine- tuning argument suggests that this level of improbability and complexity could not have possibly been achieved without intelligent design, which therefore supports the existence of God. This is where I challenge Robin Collins’ argument. I contend that the fine-tuning argument does provide evidence of an intelligent ‘being’, but would not go as far as to say that the argument provides evidence of God himself. According to the dictionary, God is defined as “the creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority.” The fine-tuning argument only corroborates a portion of the definition of what God is. The fine-tuning argument supplies reasoning as to there being a creator, a designer, that is intelligent and able to fabricate a life-sustaining universe, but does not even begin to attempt to prove that there is a being, the same being that is the creator, that rules the universe and also provides all moral authority. Robin Collins states that the fine-tuning argument is one of the most powerful arguments in favor of the existence of God(4). I suggest that the existence of the creator of the universe is supported by the fine-tuning argument, but the existence of the full