Argument from Design

A state of original "absolute chaos" is impossible because

• absolute chaos would produce absolute absurdities

• absolute chaos would come after order

• absolute chaos would not require order

• absolute chaos would produce the ordered universe over time

Chaos is only understood against a background of

• chance

• order

• thought

• religion

The main philosophical principle that demonstrates the world is not the product of chance/chaos

• causes and effects would result in the production of prior effects

• the universe has within itself the source of its existence

• the cause of existence can be anything, so long as there is enough time

• every effect must have a proportionate cause

The term 'omniscient' means

• all-knowing

• all-good

• all-powerful

• ever-present

The design argument is based upon what observation?

• the universe is profoundly organized, without which no life could emerge

• the universe is in a state of total disorder/chaos

• disorganization is the basic state of things

• sensory data provides no meaningful access to reality

One reason chance is a poor explanation of the ordered universe is

• anything that did happen had to happen

• the chances are so vastly remote as to compel(force) an alternative explanation

• whatever one thinks about reality is true of reality

• there is no possible alternative; God is the only possible answer

Why are blind, purposeless forces unlikely to be the source of the ordered universe?

• because when we cease to think we can understand the universe more accurately

• the universe self replicates itself an infinite number of times

• because even when intention, reason, and practice is involved it's difficult to achieve an orderly result

• the universe is capable of creating itself

The reason the source of existence must also be personal is

• Only persons are capable of love

• Only persons can experience growth

• Only person beings can move

• Only personal kinds of things have rational intelligence

Why does it matter that it takes rational intelligence to discover the rules of nature?

• Because they must have been put there by an intelligence of a rational kind

• because rational rules are often a byproduct of random events

• because our minds make up the rules of nature

• because the only way to see things is ordered, even if in reality they are chaotic

What kind of intelligence is required for the rules in nature to be understood?

• animal

• rational

• machine

• emotional