1. Teleological Argument - Aquinas By the end of todays lesson you will have: Re-capped what you have learnt about the historical background of the teleological argument Been introduced to Aquinas teleological argument Have compared it to that of Platos and Aristotles

2. Starter Quick Fire Q. What name did Plato give to the designing creator? Q. What evidence does Aristotle suggest points towards the existence of the Gods? Q. How does the allegory of the cave explain Platos ideas on the design of the world?

3. Starter Bin Shoot When paper is crumpled, ripped and finished with, we throw it in the bin Have a go at throwing the unused paper into the bin Could the paper have got into the bin by itself? The aim of getting the paper into the bin had to be helped by an intelligent being - YOU

4. Aquinas 5 ways 13th Century Catholic Monk Was heavily influenced by Aristotle Aristotle saw intelligence in the universe Aquinas came up with 5 arguments to prove the existence of God. The teleological argument falls under the 5th way in which Aquinas argues that God must exist.

5. Aquinas: Fifth Way In pairs, read through the sheet on Aquinas fifth way Create 3 questions on the text to ask another pair Try and make them difficult the pair who get the most questions right (without looking at notes) wins!! Extension task:Complete the missing words from the section A summary of Aquinas Fifth Way

6. Aquinas: Fifth way You tube clip How was Aquinas influenced by Aristotles thoughts on the 4 causes, material, formal, efficient and final causes? What does an intelligent designer mean? How is this similar to what you learnt for

7. Aquinas: Fifth way Aquinas links Aristotles idea of a Final Cause to God. For Aquinas, the final reason that things have a particular design, goal and purpose and follow natural laws is because God caused this.

8. Aquinas: Fifth way When you look at the natural world you can see that everything in it follows natural laws even if things are not conscious, thinking beings. If things follow natural laws they will tend to do well and have some goal or purpose.

9. Aquinas: Fifth way However if a thing cannot think for itself it does not have any goal or purpose unless it is directed by something that thinks: Take an archer as an example. It can only be directed to its goal and used for its purpose by someone, such as an archer.

10. Aquinas: Fifth way Aquinas conclusion: Everything in the natural world that does not think for itself heads towards its goals or purpose because it is directed by something which does think. This something we call GOD.

11. Aquinas: Fifth way Everything in the natural world follows natural laws, even if they possess no intelligence. (E.g. Gravity, the regular movement of the stars etc). By following these laws, they fulfil some purpose or end goal (telos). They couldnt do this by themselves (as they lack knowledge, so must be directed by an intelligent being GOD!

12. Aquinas: Fifth way Aquinas conclusion: Everything in the natural world that does not think for itself heads towards its goals or purpose because it is directed by something which does think. This something we call GOD.

13. Design Qua Regularity Qua= Latin word meaning by virtue of. Design qua regularity = design by virtue of regularity. TASK: Read Design Qua Regularity. Summarise how Aquinas argument is design qua regularity in no more than three sentences.

14. Teleological Argument - Aquinas By the end of todays lesson you will have: Re-capped what you have learnt about the historical background of the teleological argument Been introduced to Aquinas teleological argument Have compared it to that of Platos and Aristotles