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Refutation of the Teleological Argument

 

Argument

P1. The Universe is ordered.
P2. Order requires an intelligent being.

C1. From P1 & P2: The Universe requires/d an intelligent being [to organise/program it].
C2. From C1: [Since that being must have existed before the Universe,] That being is God (i.e. God exists).

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Refutation

P1. The Universe is ordered.

P2. Order requires an intelligent being [to organise/program it].

P3. There are intelligent beings in the Universe.


C1. From P1 & P2: The Universe requires/d an intelligent being [to organise/program it].

C2. From C1: [Since that being must have existed before the Universe,] That being is God (i.e. God exists).

C3. From P1 & P3: Intelligence is ordered [because if it weren't, it would make the Universe chaotic, which would contradict P1].

C4. From P2 & C3: Intelligent beings require/d an intelligent being [to organise/program them].

C5. From C2 & C4: God requires/d an intelligent being [to organise/program him].

C6. From C5 & C4: The intelligent being that organised/programmed God requires/d an intelligent being [to organise/program it].

C7. From C4 & C6: [We have an] Infinite regress of intelligent beings.

C8. From C7: Intelligence has always existed.

C9. From C3 & C8: [For intelligence is a kind of order,] Order has always existed.

C10. From C9 and the fact that order cannot coexist with disorder, because that would be a contradiction [so either Reality (i.e., that which exists) has always been ordered, or it has never been]: the concept of a God who orders the Universe is false, because such a God has never actually ordered anything, for everything was already ordered.

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