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	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Teleological argument
		A teleological argument (or a design argument) is an argument for the existence of God based on evidence of design in nature.
		Teleological arguments for the existence of God are put forward today by many people, particularly in Iran and the United States, who consider that this gives scientific support for their faith.
		Their opponents claim that such arguments are not scientific as they fail to meet the criteria of scientific philosophy, particularly falsifiability and naturalism.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Teleological_argument (2102 words)

	Cosmological argument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The cosmological argument is an argument for the existence of God, also traditionally known as an "argument from universal causation", an "argument from first cause", and also as the "uncaused cause" argument.
		Whichever term is used, there are three basic variants of this argument, each with subtle but important distinctions: the argument from causation in esse, the argument from causation in fieri, and the argument from contingency.
		Though contemporary versions of the cosmological argument most typically assume that there was a beginning to the cosmic chain of physical, or natural causes, the early formulations of the argument did not have the benefit of this degree of theoretical insight into the apparent origins of the cosmos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cosmological_argument (2533 words)

	Teleological argument: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A teleological argument (or a design argument) is an argument for the existence of God arguments for the existence of God quick summary:
		The argument from ignorance, also known as argumentum ad ignorantium or argument by lack of imagination, is the assertion that because something is currently...
		The cosmological argument is an argument for the existence of god....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/te/teleological_argument.htm (3851 words)

	The Teleological Argument
		The teleological argument was used by St Thomas Aquinas as one of his Five Ways of knowing that God exists, but the most cited statement of the argument is that of William Paley.
		Modern teleological arguments tend to focus on the “fine-tuning” in the universe, the fact that it is exactly as it needs to be (“fine-tuned”) to support life.
		Though he is no longer the vehement critic of the argument that he once was, having recently been persuaded that it might have merit, he continues to be a critic of the common name, insisting that it is it the argument to, not from, design.
	www.philosophyofreligion.info /teleological.html (673 words)

	Teleological Arguments for God's Existence
		The resultant theistic arguments, in their various logical forms, share a focus on plan, purpose, intention and design, and are thus classified as teleological arguments (or, frequently, as arguments from or to design).
		Teleological arguments (or arguments from design) by contrast begin with a much more specialized catalogue of properties and end with a conclusion concerning the existence of a designer with the intellectual properties (knowledge, purpose, understanding, foresight, wisdom, intention) necessary to design the things exhibiting the special properties in question.
		The historical arguments of interest are precisely the potentially problematic ones—inferences beginning with some empirical features of nature taken as (or argued to be) design-indicative, and concluding with the designedness of, and a designer of, the phenomena in question.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/teleological-arguments (9095 words)

	ipedia.com: Teleological argument Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A teleological argument (or an argument from design) is an argument for the existence of God based on evidence of design in nature.
		This argument is very popular today in Iran and the United States, probably because it seems to be the most "scientific" argument for the existence of God.
		The most famous proponent of the teleological argument is William Paley (1743-1805), who, also, framed the argument with reference to a watch.
	www.ipedia.com /teleological_argument.html (855 words)

	What is the Teleological argument for the existence of God?
		The word "teleology" comes from "telos" which means "purpose" or "goal." The idea is that it takes a "purposer" to have purpose, and so where we see things obviously intended for a purpose something had to have caused it for a reason.
		ow the teleological argument applies this criteria to the whole universe.
		In addition to being used to demonstrate God's existence, the teleological argument also exposes shortcomings in the theory of Evolution.
	www.gotquestions.org /teleological-argument.html (523 words)

	the Teleological Argument.
		The teleological argument is also known as the argument from design.
		This argument is simple to understand and has merit since humans are designers by nature and it is natural to think in terms of things having purpose.
		I think the teleological argument carries weight because it is consistent with Scripture.
	www.carm.org /apologetics/teleological.htm (432 words)

	Design Inference Website: The Writings of William A. Dembski
		"Algorithm," "Algorithmic Complexity," "Boundary Conditions," "Dissipative Structures," and "Teleological Argument." [28Aug03] Five entries in the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Science and Religion, edited by Wentzel van Huyssteen, published spring 2003.
		This bit of frivolity adapts and extends Paul Dunmore's "The Uses of Fallacy," New Zealand Mathematics Magazine, vol.
		Naturalism's Argument from Invincible Ignorance: A Response to Howard Van Till.
	www.designinference.com (3133 words)

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