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dc.contributor.authorLoke, Andrew
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-13T12:19:01Z
dc.date.available2022-05-13T12:19:01Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifierONIX_20220513_9783030944032_20
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54428
dc.description.abstractA prominent issue in many contemporary philosophy of religion debates concerns whether the universe has a Designer. This book moves the discussion ahead in a significant way by devising an original deductive formulation of the Teleological Argument (TA) which demonstrates that the following are the only possible categories of hypotheses concerning fine-tuning and order: (i) chance, (ii) regularity, (iii) combinations of regularity and chance, (iv) uncaused, and (v) design. This book also demonstrates that there are essential features of each category such that, while the alternatives to design are unlikely, the Design Hypothesis is not, and that one can argue for design by exclusion without having to first assign a prior probability for design. By combining the TA with the Kalam Cosmological Argument (KCA) which it defends against various objections, this book responds to the God-of-the-gaps objection by demonstrating that the conclusion of the KCA-TA is not based on gaps which can be filled by further scientific progress, but follows from deduction and exclusion. This is an open access book.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPalgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion
dc.subject.otherUltimate Designer
dc.subject.otherCosmology
dc.subject.otherCausation
dc.subject.otherFine-Tuning
dc.subject.otherFirst Cause
dc.subject.otherLaws of Nature
dc.titleThe Teleological and Kalam Cosmological Arguments Revisited
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-030-94403-2
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5
oapen.relation.isbn9783030944032
oapen.imprintPalgrave Macmillan
oapen.pages387
oapen.place.publicationCham


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