Hume's anti-teleological opposition to the argument for God's existence from design is generally regarded as the most intellectually significant such attempt to rebut the Teleological Argument prior to Darwin.
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Another very important classical supporter of the teleological argument was Galen, whose compendious works were one of the major sources of medical knowledge until modern times, both in Europe and in Moslem lands.
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But I can find out no such case . " Darwin's theory of evolution challenges the teleological argument by postulating an alternative explanation to that of an intelligent designer namely, evolution by natural selection.
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The most famous statement of this teleological argument using the watchmaker analogy was given by William Paley in his 1802 book " Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity ".
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C . S . Lewis argued that supernaturalism, a basic tenet of Christianity, can be inferred based on a teleological argument regarding the source of human reason, and thus no leap of faith is required.
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Since the Middle Ages, discussion of the religious " argument from design " or " teleological argument " in theology, with its concept of " intelligent design, " has persistently referred to the theistic Creator God.
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Galen's connection of the teleological argument to discussions about the complexity of living things, and his insistence that this is possible for a practical scientist, foreshadows some aspects of modern uses of the teleological argument.
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Galen's connection of the teleological argument to discussions about the complexity of living things, and his insistence that this is possible for a practical scientist, foreshadows some aspects of modern uses of the teleological argument.
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He then focuses on the history of natural theology in Britain, recounting the teleological arguments of William Paley and Thomas Reid, and the primary reason for their demise, the Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection.
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St . Thomas Aquinas ( c . 1225 1274 ) presented several versions of the cosmological argument in his " Summa Theologica ", and of the teleological argument in his " Summa Contra Gentiles ".
