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200 14$aThe Teleological and Kalam Cosmological Arguments Revisited$b[electronic resource]
210   $aCham $cSpringer International Publishing AG$d2022
215   $a1 online resource (398 p.)
225 1 $aPalgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion 
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a3-030-94402-6 
311   $a3-030-94403-4 
330   $aA 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 ?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-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.
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606   $aPhilosophy: metaphysics & ontology$2bicssc
610   $aUltimate Designer
610   $aCosmology
610   $aCausation
610   $aFine-Tuning
610   $aFirst Cause
610   $aLaws of Nature
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615  7$aPhilosophy of science
615  7$aPhilosophy: metaphysics & ontology
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