eutaxiological
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]eutaxiological
- (of reasoning) That asserts that order must have a planned cause
- 1844, The Universalist Quarterly and General Review:
- We call it the modern teleological argument, although, in the phraseology of Mr. Hicks, in his " Critique of Design Arguments," it is eutaxiological.
- 1988, John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle:
- eutaxiological argument so popular with Newton and his disciples, on the other hand, is logically simpler than the teleological one and hides no linguistic subtleties.
- 2001, Michael Anthony Corey, The God Hypothesis: Discovering Divine Design in Our Goldilocks Universe:
- This eutaxiological definition of miracles also has the advantage of being consistent with all the findings and postulates of modern science . . .