Evaluate the teleological argument for the existence of God
The arguments for the existence of God are usually understood as arguments for classical theism. H.P. Owen , in his book Concepts of Deity, defines theism as "...belief in one God, the Creator, who is infinite, self-existent, incorporeal, eternal, immutable, impassable, simple, perfect, omniscient and omnipotent." (pg 1)
H.P.Owen uses Aquinas' Summa Theologica as his chief source for classical theism. It is here, as the last of Aquinas' Five Ways, that we are presented with the argument for the existence of God from design, otherwise known as the teleological argument or the "Armchair argument". Aquinas says that we can come to a proof of the existence of God simply by reflecting on the nature of the universe. Lucilius, in Cicero's De Natura Deorum presents us with one of the earliest mentions of the teleological argument suggesting that the existence of "some divinity or superior intelligence" (Davies pg50) seems......
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