Topic > William Paley's Design Argument - 725
Many philosophers have talked about the fact that our senses cannot be trusted for knowledge. These strongly held beliefs led to the creation of groups of philosophers known as skeptics. Paley's assumption that the reader will agree that “anyone who is healthy” is an adequate enough response to defend the case argument detracts from his overall argument. Paley's response would likely be to point out the concept of an intricate design coming out of nothing and the perceived impossibility of this concept. Nonetheless, Paley's response fails to convince me in favor of his fourth argument and instead leads me to question the integrity of some
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