Quoting from William Paley's " Natural Theology ", Dawkins discusses the argument from design using the example of the watch and the watchmaker.
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Rumford was heavily influenced by the argument from design and it is likely that he wished to grant water a privileged and providential status in the regulation of human life.
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He further saw this as evidence of the argument from design, contending that divine providence had arranged for fur on animals in such a way as to guarantee their comfort.
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Instead, under the influence of Locke and Newton, deists turned to natural theology and to arguments based on experience and nature : the cosmological argument and the argument from design.
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Prominent in this movement were the anatomist Vesalius and the physiologist William Harvey, who used experimentation and careful observation, and naturalists such as Carl Linnaeus and argument from design ).
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The argument from design asserts, first, that the universe is fine tuned to support life, and second, that this fine tuning points to the existence of an intelligent designer.
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They related the analogy to the " argument from design, " where it was used to support arguments for the existence of God, as well as for the intelligent design of the universe.
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Hume pioneered a comparative history of religion, tried to explain various rites and traditions as being based on deception and challenged various aspects of rational and natural theology, such as the argument from design.
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He proposed that the argument from design does not take into consideration future events which may serve to undermine the proof of God's existence : the argument would never finish proving God's existence.
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The "'Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit "'is a counter-argument to modern versions of the < !-- [ surplus here ? : argument from design for the existence of God.
