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The Argument From Design And The Cosmological Argument by Alex Wattermann
The argument from design and the cosmological arguments are two, probably the most popular and well-known arguments that aim to prove the existence of God. Actually, they may seem similar but it is only superficial impression and we can easily prove it on analyzing them both and that is exactly what I am going to do in my paper.
First of all, I think it is necessary to describe briefly both the argument from design and the cosmological argument. As for the argument from design, I can say that the followers of this argument, beginning with the most ancient such as Aristotle, estimated that everything in the world is complex and it must have its creator. According to the argument from design, humans are products of intelligent design and the universe has some characteristics of human than it also is designed but human intelligent, being too weak, could not create the universe than, taking into consideration all the intricacy of the universe, it could only be created by the God, consequently, the universe as well as human beings must have been created by a super powerful intelligent that is the prime, or as Aristotle called it unmoved, mover. Thus, see that this argument just presuppose the existence of the prime mover who has set the rules and everything in the universe works according to these rules.
However, the cosmological argument is based on the idea that everything in the universe is in motion and "there is change in the world and the change is always the effect of some cause or causes" (Russel 1997, p.172). Logically, we may continue the chain of causes and effects stating that the effect of a cause may be a further cause or causes but this chain cannot be unlimited and it must have the first cause. But here we may the difference of the cosmological argument and the argument from design the former presuppose the existence of the first cause but than all causes and effects, being linked to each other, are not directly linked to the God whereas the argument from design implies that everything, being created by God and is controlled by him, consequently, it is hardly possible to speak about any independent causes and effects, as in the case of the cosmological argument, for if we have a chain of interlinked causes and effects than we cannot say that the God is the only cause of everything in the universe that is quite contradictive to the argument from design's basic idea that everything is created, and consequently caused, by the God.
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Thus, taking into account all above mentioned, I can say that both arguments emphasizing the existence of the God, use different approaches to prove this point and, in reality, they are quite contradictive compared to one another and what really unite both these arguments is the conclusion that there is the first cause or the great creator of the universe and everything in it and it is the God.
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