ABSTRACT
This chapter features thought experiments, discussion questions and further readings on the design argument. The alleged proof for the existence of God is given by the design argument sometimes called the teleological argument. The starting point for this argument is the idea that the world around us exhibits purpose and, seemingly, that this provides people with some evidence of a designer. To get to the nub of matters, the chapter considers a very famous thought experiment that we borrow from Paley. If we are tempted, in the case of the phone, to infer the existence of a designer, then so too in the case of the Universe we should conclude that people have evidence of a designer. It is much clear what people would think if they were crossing a piece of moorland and encountered a very sophisticated object that they had never encountered before and never encountered again.
