1. Choose the outcome you think is most likely

2. Ockham’s Razor

3. Read William Paley’s Watch Argument. How does it prove G-d’s existence
Read William Paley’s Watch Argument. How does it prove G-d’s existence? “If we were to come across a watch, we would conclude that all the parts fitted together for a purpose and its existence was not a chance. The watch would have a designer. The same can be said of the universe.”

4. Read the extract on Ockham’s Razor What word could you use instead of hypothesis? Explain Ockham’s Razor in no more than two sentences. Why in the example must it be concluded that fairies do not exist? According to Ockham what answer is always the correct one?

5. Looking back at the texts from last lesson, identify two views that can be taken from them.
William Paley
Thomas Aquinas
John Wisdom
Arthur Brown

6. “Look at the world: you will find it to be nothing but one great machine…all these various machines have a purpose. The author of nature must be proportional to the grandeur of the work which he has executed. By this argument we do prove the existence of the Deity.”
What are the two opposing views which
can be identified?
The world works like a machine and therefore has a purpose.
The world works like a machine but is purposeless.
Which view is the simplest?
Which view is then correct?
Both answers are ONE
David Hume

7. Apply Ockham’s Razor to work out which view is the correct one.
What are the two opposing views that can be identified?
Which view is the simplest?
Which view is then correct?
William Paley
Thomas Aquinas
John Wisdom
Arthur Brown

8. Which kind of teleological argument is stronger –
qua regularity or qua purpose?

9. Watch this video to summarise the learning