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Across
  1. 3. Being that cannot not exist and is independent of anything else
  2. 5. Philosopher who argued God’s necessary existence is logically possible
  3. 6. Proposed natural selection as a counter-argument to design arguments
  4. 8. Philosopher who argued existence is a predicate of God and part of His perfection
  5. 10. Philosopher who proposed the ontological argument that God is the greatest conceivable being
  6. 12. Property that adds something to the concept of a being
  7. 18. Philosopher who proposed five ways to demonstrate God’s existence
  8. 23. Sequence with no first cause, relevant in cosmological arguments
  9. 24. Aquinas’ third way, argument from contingent and necessary beings
  10. 25. Philosopher who criticized the design argument and causation arguments
  11. 26. Perfect island analogy used by Gaunilo against Anselm
  12. 27. Being that depends on something else for its existence
  13. 28. Philosopher known for the watch analogy in the teleological argument
  14. 29. Knowledge independent of experience, used in ontological arguments
  15. 30. Knowledge derived from experience, used in cosmological and design arguments
  16. 32. Analogy used by Paley to illustrate complexity implies a designer
  17. 33. Philosopher who supports the anthropic argument for God’s existence
Down
  1. 1. Cosmological argument revived by philosophers like John Locke
  2. 2. Argument that aesthetic qualities in the universe suggest intention
  3. 4. Aquinas’ first way, something that causes motion without being moved
  4. 7. Aquinas’ second way, first efficient cause of everything
  5. 8. Argument that the order and purpose in the universe implies an intelligent designer
  6. 9. Final purpose or end in nature, part of Aquinas’ teleological reasoning
  7. 11. Philosopher known for the principle of sufficient reason and contingency arguments
  8. 13. Philosopher who debated Russell, defending cosmological arguments
  9. 14. Scientist who argued evolution removes the need for a designer
  10. 15. Critic of Anselm who used the perfect island analogy
  11. 16. Philosopher who defended a version of Anselm's ontological argument using necessary existence
  12. 17. Argument that the universe appears fine-tuned for human life
  13. 19. Philosopher whose work influenced Anselm’s ontological argument
  14. 20. Observation that nature follows specific laws, part of Aquinas’ design argument
  15. 21. Example used to discuss existence adding to the concept, in Kantian critique
  16. 22. Philosopher who argued existence is not a predicate and criticized ontological arguments
  17. 31. Philosopher who argued the universe may be a brute fact with no cause