What do you think may link these pictures? Complete this sentence

in your books: ‘William Paley would say …’

Title for your books: The Design Argument 2

The Design Argument 2

D Describe how there is evidence of design in the worldC/B Explain how this may lead to or support belief in GodA/A*Evaluate if design proves God’s existence

Key Words: Designer, Universe, Complex, Purpose, Order, Beauty, Plan

Year 9 GCSE Ethics & Philosophy Term 5: Believing In God

1. Introduction

to GCSE

2. Religious Upbringing

3. Religious Experience 1

5. The Argument From Design 1

6. The Argument From Design 2

7. Revision

11. The Argument

From Causation 2

10. The Argument

From Causation 1

9. Assessment Feedback

4. Religious Experience 2

12. How One Religion Responds To Scientific Explanations For the World’s Existence

8. Assessment

Any complex mechanism is designed for a purpose. Design involves things working together according to a plan to produce something that was intended. If you look at a car, you can see that fuel powers an engine, that turns a shaft that provides drive to the wheels, this makes a self-propelled vehicle so that people can travel more easily. A look at any part of the car makes you think that the car has been designed.

1. In what ways does the eye appear to have been designed?

2. What other explanations can you think of?

Read page 8 in the textbook. Title: Evidence of Design In the World

Example Notes

Laws of Science

DNA

Evolution

Beauty of Nature

Anything that has been designed must have a designer.

There is plenty of evidence that the world has been designed (laws of science, DNA, evolution, beauty of nature.

The only possible designer of something as beautiful and complex as the world would be God.

Therefore the appearance of design in the world proves that God exists.

Use the design toolkit to produce a flow diagram

that shows how the appearance of design in the world may lead to or

support belief in God.

The Argument from Design

Complete your diagram in your books

Anything that has been designed must have a designer.

There is plenty of evidence that the world has been designed (laws of science, DNA, evolution, beauty of nature.

The only possible designer of something as beautiful and complex as the world would be God.

Therefore the appearance of design in the world proves that God exists.

How do these pictures

challenge Paley’s design

argument?

Write three sentences in

your book answering this

question

No designer would have and the existence of the universe without needing God.

Science can explain the appearance of design

prove that the universe has a designer, not that God exists.

The argument does not explain how things like dinosaurs (which must have been designed badly)

created things like volcanoes, earthquakes and other natural disasters.

Even if the argument worked it would only

could have been part of a design for the world.

Match the heads with the tails to explain how the appearance of design in the world may not lead to belief

in God.

No designer would have created things like volcanoes, earthquakes and other natural disasters

Science can explain the appearance of design

and the existence of the universe without needing God

The argument does not explain how things like dinosaurs (which must have been designed badly)

could have been part of a design for the world

Even if the argument worked it would only

prove that the universe has a designer, not that God exists

Match the heads with the tails to explain how the appearance of design in the world may not lead to belief

in God.

I think that God did/did not design the world because …

A second reason for my view is …

If you agree you may use the argument from design to support your view.

If you disagree, use reasons why the appearance of design doesn’t lead to belief in God.

Exam preparation: ‘Do you think God designed the world?’ (4 Marks)

Use your literacy mat for key words and how to PEE