1499 | Heraclitus says intelligence draws on divine reason [Heraclitus, by Sext.Empiricus] |
480 | Past, present and future, and the movements of the heavens, were arranged by Mind [Anaxagoras] |
274 | Soul must be the cause of all the opposites, such as good and evil or beauty and ugliness [Plato] |
21263 | If all the motions of nature reflect calculations of reason, then the best kind of soul must direct it [Plato] |
13226 | An Order controls all things [Aristotle] |
610 | The world can't be arranged at all if there is nothing eternal and separate [Aristotle] |
2649 | If tuneful flutes grew on olive trees, you would assume the olive had some knowledge of the flute [Zeno of Citium] |
5993 | The ascending scale of living creatures requires a perfect being [Cleanthes, by Tieleman] |
2647 | It is obvious from order that someone is in charge, as when we visit a gymnasium [Cicero] |
2650 | If a person cannot feel the power of God when looking at the stars, they are probably incapable of feeling [Cicero] |
2655 | If the barbarians of Britain saw a complex machine, they would be baffled, but would know it was designed [Cicero] |
2656 | Chance is no more likely to create the world than spilling lots of letters is likely to create a famous poem [Cicero] |
20695 | God's eternal power and deity are clearly seen in what has been created [Paul] |
22735 | The original substance lacked motion or shape, and was given these by a cause [Sext.Empiricus] |
21808 | Soul is author of all of life, and of the stars, and it gives them law and movement [Plotinus] |
5753 | The regular events of this life could never be due to chance [Boethius] |
6819 | True believers see that Allah made the night for rest and the day to give light [Mohammed] |
21273 | Way 5: mindless things act towards an obvious end, so there is an intelligent director [Aquinas] |
17024 | The elegance of the solar system requires a powerful intellect as designer [Newton] |
2595 | If the universe is a perfect agreement of uncommunicating substances, there must be a common source [Leibniz] |
19417 | All substances are in harmony, even though separate, so they must have one divine cause [Leibniz] |
19329 | The laws of physics are wonderful evidence of an intelligent and free being [Leibniz] |
3949 | It has been proved that creation is the workmanship of God, from its beauty and usefulness [Berkeley] |
6962 | The thing which contains order must be God, so see God where you see order [Hume] |
21275 | Unlike a stone, the parts of a watch are obviously assembled in order to show the time [Paley] |
21276 | From the obvious purpose and structure of a watch we must infer that it was designed [Paley] |
21277 | Even an imperfect machine can exhibit obvious design [Paley] |
21278 | All the signs of design found in a watch are also found in nature [Paley] |
21357 | No organ shows purpose more obviously than the eyelid [Paley] |
1451 | Design is seen in the way ideas match the world, in the mechanisms of evolution, and in values [Tennant,FR, by PG] |
23892 | The only legitimate proof of God by order derives from beauty [Weil] |
20707 | The universe exhibits design either in its sense of purpose, or in its regularity [Davies,B] |