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(b) For a Clock
1. The Material Cause is wheels, pinions, motor pinions, and hands (second, minute, hour), and in the past, the pendulum, sticks, etc.
2. The Formal Cause can be round, oval, square, rectangular, grandfather clock like, or hourglass, etc.
3. The Efficient cause is the clock maker, its designer.
4. The Final aim is to measure temporality in intervals of time. This
measurement is in relation to the sun and the heavens so that we may measure the seasons, and know the duration of life of organisms, planting of crops, etc. We measure too the small units of time, night and day, their hours, given the amount of light or darkness. It was not used to measure being-presence.
(iii) In time, Aristotle’s “Final Cause” or “Teleological Science” was adapted to the “Argument from Design:” “just as a clock has a designer, so must the universe.” Argue the argument.
The argument from design may be expressed in this simple way:
1. The universe is a symphony of beauty, order and proportion just as a clock is. (This is from Plato’s Timaeus, except for the clock part!)
2. Where there is order and design, there must be an intelligent designer.
3. Therefore, an intelligent designer designed the universe.
One may question whether (1) above is true; some may argue that the universe, the totality of all of time, space, matter and energy, is chaotic, but this is not well founded. We know at least that our solar system is coplanar, it shows order and regularity in its motions, and that all planets orbit in the same direction with exception of a few.
However, this order does not warrant the existence of an intelligent designer (2 above)
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