Teleological and Kalam Cosmological Arguments Revisited

A prominent issue in many contemporary philosophy of religion debates concernswhether the universe has a Designer.This book moves the discussion ahead in a significant way bydevising an original deductive formulation of the Teleological Argument (TA) whichdemonstratesthat 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 thatone can argue for design by exclusion without having to ?rst 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-gapsobjection 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.