Later, the teleological argument was accepted by Saint Thomas Aquinas and included as the fifth of his " William Turner and John Ray were well-known proponents.
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Also starting already in classical Greece, two approaches to the teleological argument developed, distinguished by their understanding of whether the natural order was literally created or not.
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In England, however, the fable was taken much more seriously as support for the teleological argument being put forward by theologians and philosophers at about that time.
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Regardless of whether or not bureaucracies should be considered positively efficient or too efficient to the extent that they become negative, Weberian bureaucracy tends to offer a teleological argument.
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One of Lewis'arguments is that supernaturalism, a basic tenet of Christianity, can be logically inferred based on a teleological argument regarding the source of human reason.
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According to the analogical reasoning in the teleological argument, it would be ridiculous to assume that a complex object such as a watch came about through some random process.
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William Paley, an important influence on Charles Darwin, who studied theology at Christ College in Cambridge, gave a well-known rendition of the teleological argument for God.
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From the beginning, there have been numerous criticisms of the different versions of the teleological argument, and responses to its challenge to the claims against non-teleological natural science.
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In order to understand how one might go about analyzing an argument from analogy, consider the teleological argument and the criticisms of this argument put forward by the philosopher David Hume.
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S�ren Kierkegaard questioned the existence of God, rejecting all rational arguments for God's existence ( including the teleological argument ) on the grounds that reason is inevitably accompanied by doubt.
