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Design argument started with Plato, Socrates and different Greek philosophers
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Micrographia compared the perfect design of living thingswith the blemishes of man’s artefacts.
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The Scottish philosopher David Hume challenged the argument from design.
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In a long book, Paley considered the structure of living things and how they pointed to a Designer.
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In Natural Theology William Paley discussed the design of biological structures without reference to deep time
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He published Bridgewater Treatise that was an excellent compendium of geology and palaeontology, but it was also strong on Design
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In The Origin of Species, Darwin picked up the problems of appealing to the Design argument and showed how this was swept under the carpet by appeals to the Divine Plan.
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YOUNG EARTH DESIGN as always stressed Design, and due to their young earth stance, considers design ahistorically.
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Norman Geisler and Kerby Anderson published Origin Science, a proposal for the Creation-Evolution controversy and The Mystery of Life’s Origin, both books rejected both a young earth and theistic evolution.
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