argument from design

noun

1. another name for teleological argument

Example Sentences

Newtonianism was thus only conceivable within a culture which had elaborated and become dependent upon the argument from design.

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For them, as we saw in Chapter 9, the argument from design depended on envisaging the universe as manufactured, rather than on showing nature itself to be purposive.

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As for the argument from design, it was fundamentally different from the traditional Thomistic argument, which held that the universe was imbued with purpose, and that the ultimate purpose was to be found in God.

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It has been claimed that the modern argument from design first appears in John Wilkins, one of the founders of the Royal Society, in Of the Principles and Duties of Natural Religion, published posthumously in 1675.

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If Newtonianism destroyed the corpuscular philosophy, it greatly strengthened the argument from design.

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