:"'Intelligent Design "'( sometimes abbreviated "'ID "') is a term used to describe a particular system of beliefs and theory based on teleological argument and information theory.
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""'Intelligent Design "'( sometimes abbreviated "'ID "') is a term used to describe a particular system of beliefs and theory based on teleological argument and information theory ."
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""'God of the gaps "'" is a term used to describe observations of Christian theologians not to discredit theism but rather to point out the fallacy of relying on teleological arguments for God's existence.
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The "'watchmaker analogy "'or "'watchmaker argument "'is a teleological argument, which by way of an analogy, states that design of creation ( like a watch ) implies a designer.
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In 1802 William Paley formulated the first known teleological argument depicting machines producing other machines, suggesting that the question of who originally made a watch was rendered moot if it were demonstrated that the watch was able to manufacture a copy of itself.
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I asked for comment on what people thought of my suggestion, that the introduction should read " " Intelligent design is term used to describe a particular system of beliefs and theory based on teleological argument and information theory . ""
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They in turn influenced William Paley who wrote a detailed teleological argument for God in 1802, " Natural Theology, or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity collected from the Appearances of Nature ", starting with the Watchmaker analogy.
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The OP's throwaway " see also " reference indicates they are less interested in statistic calculation than interested in resurrecting the tired old teleological argument for existence of God and / or intelligent design . talk ) 10 : 02, 2 August 2011 ( UTC)
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Finally, Hume provides many possible " unintended consequences " of the argument; for instance, given that objects such as watches are often the result of the labor of groups of individuals, the reasoning employed by the teleological argument would seem to lend support to polytheism.
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In " The Wisdom of God " he included many of the familiar examples of purposive adaptation and design in nature ( the teleological argument ), such as the structure of the eye, the hollowness of the bones, the camel's stomach and the hedgehog's armor.
