Swinburne's design argument from temporal order/ regularity

Swinburne’s argument is a form of what

temporal order/ regularity, analogy

P1 Swinburne

temporal regularities occur either a) as a natural phenomena (e.g. apple falling to ground) or b)as the result of human action (being hit by an apple your brother has thrown)

P2 Swinburne

temporal regularities from human action can be explained by the rational choices of free agents because they have the intelligence, power and freedom to act

P3 Swinburne

temporal regularities resulting from laws of nature are explained in terms of more fundamental laws of nature

P4 Swinburne

However, the operations of fundamental laws of nature cannot be given a scientific explanation

P5 Swinburne

Teleological regularities produced by human agency are similar to temporal regularities produced by the laws of nature

P6 Swinburne

By analogy temporal regularities resulting from laws of nature could be explained by reference to a rational agent

P7 Swinburne

the universe is immense and its laws of nature are complex

C Swinburne

best explanation for temporal regularities resulting from laws on nature is existence of rational agent with the immense intelligence, power and freedom needed to create such an ordered universe