ABSTRACT
A major event in the debate about the Design Argument was the discoveries of Darwin. Darwin's originality lay not in the theory of evolution, but in his suggesting a mechanism, natural selection, whereby new species could be formed from existing ones without the necessity for intervention by God. John Stuart Mill also challenged the Christian Argument from Design. Mill acknowledged that the argument might succeed in pointing to a God, but denied that it pointed to the Christian God. Those who had supported the Design Argument had seen all the intricacies of nature as being the work of God. F. R. Tennant has presented the Design Argument in a revised form. He maintains that theism is the most probable world hypothesis and uses an extended Design Argument which takes Darwin into account. Arguments from providence start from the provision for the needs of temporal beings. Teleological arguments start from a general pattern of order in the universe.
