Intelligent Design: Crash Course Philosophy #11
Last week we introduced Thomas Aquinas's four cosmological arguments for the existence of god; today we introduce his fifth argument: the teleological ...
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Crash Course Philosophy is brought to you by Squarespace. Squarespace: share your passion with the world. Over the centuries, the effort to craft a perfect, bullet-proof argument for the existence of God has taken many forms. There was the ontological argument of Anselm. There were the four cosmological arguments of Aquinas. And they still have their supporters. But many modern philosophers feel that they’re simply too flawed -- too inconsistent with our scientific understanding of the universe -- to be convincing today. But there was a fifth argument posited by Thomas Aquinas. And it was popularized several hundred years after his time -- in the late 1700s, by the English Christian philosopher William Paley. And this argument for God’s existence is still around today, too. In fact, it’s o...
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Crash Course Philosophy is brought to you by Squarespace. Squarespace: share your passion with the world. Over the centuries, the effort to craft a perfect, bullet-proof argument for the existence of God has taken many forms. There was the ontological argument of Anselm. There were the four cosmological arguments of Aquinas. And they still have their supporters. But many modern philosophers feel that they’re simply too flawed -- too inconsistent with our scientific understanding of the universe -- to be convincing today. But there was a fifth argument posited by Thomas Aquinas. And it was popularized several hundred years after his time -- in the late 1700s, by the English Christian philosopher William Paley. And this argument for God’s existence is still around today, too. In fact, it’s o...
