Some examples from this set of practice questions
1.
William Paley\'s watch analogy
Answer: \'When we come to inspect the watch, we perceive that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose...the inference we think is inevitable that the watch must have had a maker\'
2.
Paley (Design qua Regularity)
Answer: \'If the attracting forces had varied [...] great destruction and confusion would have taken place\'
3.
Paley (manifestation)
Answer: \'Every manifestation of design, which existed in the watch, exists in the works of nature.\'
4.
Brown (Design qua purpose- The Ozone Layer)
Answer: \'A wall which prevents death to every living thing, just the right thickness and exactly the correct defence gives every evidence of a plan\'
5.
Karl Barth (critique of natural theology)
Answer: \'the finite has no capacity for the infinite\'
6.
Philo (World-making)
Answer: \'Many worlds might have been botched and bungled\'
7.
David Hume (infant)
Answer: \'This world was the first essay of an infant deity who afterwards abandoned it\'
8.
Dawkins (response to Paley)
Answer: Evolution is \'the blind watchmaker\'
9.
Frederick Tennant (Beauty)
Answer: \'Beauty seems to be superfluous and have little survival value\'
10.
Socrates
Answer: \'With such signs of forethought in the design of living creatures, can you doubt they are work of design?\'
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