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If we look into the mind of most theists, some of their most basic assumptions rest on the fact that God created the universe, the earth, animals and humans. If someone took away the existence of God, the existence of everything else would also logically be lost. This in itself is only the teleological argument at its most basic. The detailed version of this argument is that the universe displays design as if it were a large machine made up of detailed parts, and an intricate machine must always have had an intelligent creator and therefore so must the universe. On the surface this looks like a logical a posteriori argument but it did not convince me of the existence of a God, especially not one that fits the popular notion of an omnipotent, omniscient and all good God.
In "The Argument From Design" , Paley sums up the Teleological argument as follows:
P1) Human artifacts exhibit a design that is the result of the existence and corresponding skill of some intelligent agent
P2)......

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