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    The document discusses William Paley's Design Argument for the existence of God. It summarizes Paley's analogy that the complexity of the human body and precise conditions required for life on Earth indicate design by an intelligent creator, just as a watch found in a field would imply a watchmaker. However, others disagree, arguing that evolution provides an explanation for complexity without a designer, and the existence of suffering contradicts the idea of an all-good God. While the document's author finds Paley's argument personally convincing, it acknowledges the teleological argument remains open to interpretation.

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    The document discusses William Paley's Design Argument for the existence of God. It summarizes Paley's analogy that the complexity of the human body and precise conditions required for life on Earth indicate design by an intelligent creator, just as a watch found in a field would imply a watchmaker. However, others disagree, arguing that evolution provides an explanation for complexity without a designer, and the existence of suffering contradicts the idea of an all-good God. While the document's author finds Paley's argument personally convincing, it acknowledges the teleological argument remains open to interpretation.

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    The Design Argument

    The Design Argument was an argument for the existence of God, by William
    Paley. I personally believe that William Paley’s argument for the existence of
    God and the universe was valid, although it might have totally been another
    cause. I will be explaining for and against the ‘Teleological Argument’.

    I strongly believe that - as William Paley said - there was a designer of us, the
    Universe and all that ever existed. William Paley compared the design of the
    universe to finding a watch. He argued that if you were walking on a moor and
    found a watch lying on the grass and saw how complicated it was you would
    have to assume someone made it. By looking at the watch you would see that
    all the coils, springs and movements all work together so that the watch is
    able to keep time.

    I also would believe there was a


    designer especially because of: the
    complexity of the human body; the
    fact that we are the right distance
    away from the sun and every other
    planet; how trees take in carbon
    dioxide and give out oxygen, perfect
    for our needs and the fact that gravity is just perfect for us to live. These things
    truly stand out to me that there had to be a designer, and none of this would
    be so perfect by chance.

    Others may think that complexity is not the design of the world; the fact that
    everything is perfect doesn’t happen for a single reason. People who disagree
    with the teleological argument may state that even if the world was designed,
    it can’t be for sure that God was the creator. They may think that the existence
    of pain and suffering in this would mean that He is not all good and proving
    the argument as false. Additionally, the theory of evolution, put forward by
    Charles Darwin, shows a way of understanding how species develop without
    reference to a designer God.

    In conclusion, the fact that the Teleological Argument is right is open to


    interpretation. I personally believe that William Paley made a valid argument,
    not only as I am religious, but because it just sounds correct and believable.

    By Brij Shah, 7N

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