History of design

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  • 340 BCE

    Early Ideas

    Early Ideas
    Design argument started with Plato, Socrates and different Greek philosophers

  • The late 17th century

    The late 17th century
    Micrographia compared the perfect design of living thingswith the blemishes of man’s artefacts.

  • Hume and the 18th Century

    Hume and the 18th Century
    The Scottish philosopher David Hume challenged the argument from design.

  • WILLIAM PALEY

    WILLIAM PALEY
    In a long book, Paley considered the structure of living things and how they pointed to a Designer.

  • WILLIAM PALEY

    WILLIAM PALEY
    In Natural Theology William Paley discussed the design of biological structures without reference to deep time

  • WILLIAM BUCKLAND

    WILLIAM BUCKLAND
    He published Bridgewater Treatise that was an excellent compendium of geology and palaeontology, but it was also strong on Design

  • DARWIN’S PROBLEMS WITH DESIGN

    DARWIN’S PROBLEMS WITH DESIGN
    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.

  • RENAISSANCEOF DESIGN

    RENAISSANCEOF DESIGN
    YOUNG EARTH DESIGN as always stressed Design, and due to their young earth stance, considers design ahistorically.

  • INTELLIGENT DESIGN

    INTELLIGENT DESIGN
    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.