1. existence of god
In the middle ages, the inductive argument was used by Thomas Aquinas for his design argument for the existence of God in his five ways, based on observation and evidence. Aquinas presented the five ways that showed the existence of God because he was convinced that although God was not self-evident, he could be demonstrated through logical thought. ... The inductive form of Aquinas' argument was based on the following premises: - There is beneficial order in the universe - His beneficial order could not happen by chance - Many objects do not have the intelligence to work towards an en...
Both the Cosmological and Teleological (Design) argument for the existence of God argue "a posteriori", in that, they look to science to substantiate God's existence. Whereas the crucial notion of the cosmological argument is causality, the teleological argument (from the Greek word "teleos" meaning...