The Design Argument

Facts or Beliefs- The Design Argument Saint Thomas Aquinas was a Catholic Priest in the Dominican Order and a very important medieval philosopher and theologian. He wrote a book, SummaTheologiae, presenting five proofs of God’s existence. Each of Aquina’s arguments begins with an observation that is supposed to be easily understood by everyone. Aquina’s fifth argument for the existence of God is what has come to be called the Argument from Design. The Design argument is one of three arguments about the existence of God. The other two arguments are the cosmological argument and the ontological argument. The design argument continues on by evidence of intelligent design and of God’s existence as the best explained theory of creation. A design argument consists of an introduction that insists the universe possesses verifiable material and that it asserts intelligent design. There are two types of design arguments, global design and local design arguments. A global design argument states that the universe as a whole is explained as a product of intelligent design. A local design argument is based on more specific features that more than one object in the universe has a hypothesis that God exists. Intelligent design now can be seen as a modern reframing of natural theology. As the evolutionary theory has grown more to explain this phenomenon, the examples of such evidence of design have changed, but the base argument remains the same. Examples from the past have

Hyde p.2 been proven, including the optical system, the hand that grasps, and the wing of a bird. More current examples are protein functions, cells, DNA, blood clotting, and bacteria. Intelligent design does not try to determine the name of the specific agent of creation it merely states that one or more than one creator people is that the designer is God. Not knowing whether or not this was a boast of the concept or just a display taken to deflect pushing those who