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The teleological argument

 

Here you can read texts from three different authors. However you just need to do a presentation for the first, Thomas Aquinas.

"The fifth way is taken from the governance of the world. We see that things which lack knowledge, such as natural bodies, act for an end, and this is evident from their acting always, or nearly always, in the same way, so as to obtain the best result. Hence it is plain that they achieve their end, not fortuitously, but designedly. Now whatever lacks knowledge cannot move towards an end, unless it be directed by some being endowed with knowledge and intelligence; as the arrow is directed by the archer. Therefore, some intelligent being exists by whom all natural things are directed to their end; and this being we call God."

St Thomas AQUINASSumma Theologica: Article 3, Question 2

"This most elegant system of the sun, planets, and comets could not have arisen without the design and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being"

 Isaac NEWTON, Principia

"An irreducibly complex system cannot be produced … by slight, successive modifications of a precursor system, because any precursor to an irreducibly complex system that is missing a part is by definition nonfunctional…. Since natural selection can only choose systems that are already working, if a biological system cannot be produced gradually it would have to arise as an integrated unit, in one fell swoop, for natural selection to have anything to act on"

 Mickael BEHE

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