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Defining Undesign in a Designed Universe

Author(s): David W. Snoke
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Instytut Filozofii, Uniwersytet Zielonogórski
Keywords: Saint Augustine; levels of description; levels of giftedness; intelligent design theory; domain of control

Summary/Abstract: The argument from design, recast today in the Intelligent Design movement, relies critically on the contrast of designed things with undesigned things. This poses a problem for Christians, however, because they affirm that God designed the whole universe. How then can we call anything undesigned? I argue that this problem is equivalent to the problem of free will, or the problem of moral evil, and as such can be addressed by the same philosophical frameworks developed in the past for addressing those issues, in particular the notions of different levels of description and Augustine’s different levels of giftedness.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 06+07
  • Page Range: 117-137
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish