the teleological argument as being "logically flawed". Buddhists argue that "the 'creation' of the world cannot be shown to be analogous to the creation of a human artifact, such as a pot". Confucianism The 18th century German philosopher Christian Wolff once thought that Confucius was a godless man, and that "the ancient Chinese had no natural religion, since they did not know the creator of the world". However, later, Wolff changed his mind to some extent. "On Wolff's reading, Confucius's religious perspective is thus more or less the weak deistic one of Hume's Cleanthes." Taoism The Taoist writings of the 6th-century-BC philosopher Laozi (also known as Lao Tzu) have similarities with modern naturalist science. B. Schwartz notes that, in Taoism, "The processes of nature are not guided by a teleological consciousness ... the tao [dao] is not consciously providential. See also Argument from beauty Inverse gambler's fallacy Deism No miracles argument Turtles all the way down Intelligent design Orthogenesis - teleology in evolution References Further reading Craig, William Lane. 1990. "The Teleological Argument and the Anthropic Principle". Pp. 127–53 in The Logic of Rational Theism: Exploratory Essays, edited by W. L. Craig and M. McLeod, (Problems in Contemporary Philosophy 24). Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen. Dawkins, Richard. 1986. The Blind Watchmaker. (Takes a view against the teleological argument.) Dembski, William A. 2004. The Design Revolution. UK: InterVarsity Press. Dennett, Daniel. 1995. Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Gjersen, Derek. 1989. Science and Philosophy: Past and Present. London: Penguin. . Haught, John F. March 2011. "God after Darwin". The Montréal Review. Hunter, Cornelius G. 2007. "Science's Blind Spot: The Unseen Religion of Scientific Naturalism". Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press. Hurlbutt, Robert H. 1998. Hume, Newton, and the Design Argument (revised ed.). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. Jantzen, Benjamin C. 2014. An Introduction to Design Arguments. Cambridge University Press. (hrdbk), (pbk). Lightman, Bernard V. 2007. Victorian Popularizers of Science. . Retrieved 22 June 2009. Moreland, J. P. 1987. Scaling the Secular City: A Defense of Christianity. ch. 2. Ratzsch, Del, and Jeffrey Koperski. [2005] 2019. "Teleological Arguments for God's Existence". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ross, Hugh. "Evidence For Design In The Universe". Limits for the Universe Sotnak, Eric. 15 March 1993. "Analysis of the Teleological Argument". Internet Infidels. External links "Design arguments for the existence of God". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Design argument from the Dictionary of the history of Ideas A "Preface" to