Imagine you are stranded on island. You find a complex contraption like a watch that couldn't have been designed by nature. You assume it must have been designed by intelligent beings. When we look at nature, we see a far greater and more complex design. The Teleological Argument suggests that our assumption of an intelligent designer of the watch parallels a designer of the universe on a far grander scale. Deists believe that God is the intelligence behind the orderly structure of the cosmos, having revealed the laws of his design through reason. The inference is that science is more capable of exploring God than faith. There are no divine miracles or revelations that prove the existence of God, only the miracle of an infinitely complex universe with systematic processes.
A refutation of the Teleological Argument is that it is assumed the watch finder can tell the difference between a design and a non-design. Since the watch is found to be designed, it would seemingly imply that other things around them are not designed. Yes, there cannot be anything in nature with random appearances, so it follows that the watch finder perceives a design in anything they are seeing. My responses why shouldn't they? A random universe without patterns would be one without reason; there wouldn't be any evidence of a design. So long as reason is the fabric of design, it doesn't matter if a human created it or some other sentient being. A human invention involves no less reason than an alien invention or the physics of the cosmos. A deist doesn't worry about such distincties.
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