Teleological Argument (Aquinas)

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Yes, every object that is sharp and hard will cut. Natural objects have a built in tendency to conform to certain rules. Properties can also be defined as the basic set of rules (not being random). Inherent tendencies are properties which prescribe the behavior of those objects.

Rules presuppose a rule-maker. It takes an intelligent being to make an object that lacks awareness and intelligence conform to a rule.

Why would a rule imply a rule maker?

Once again, to even have an intelligence requires rules (for the mental aspects of that intelligence). So rules are logically prior to intelligent beings. That means that rules are more fundamental and are the better baseline explanation.

Put another way, we explain intelligence via the existence of rules (for the materials composing that intelligence) as opposed to the existence of rules by pointing to intelligence.