Two teleological arguments for God summarised and explained

Teleological arguments (from the Greek words telos, meaning “end, aim, goal” and logos meaning “knowledge, science”) are a family of arguments for God’s existence. Like the cosmological, moral, and ontological arguments, there are many arguments that fall under this category. They are largely understood as arguments from design or from fine-tuning. In other words, they take a feature of the universe, namely the universe appears to have been made for a purpose, and reasons that this purpose behind the creation of the universe is an intelligent one.

Space does not allow a full treatment of these arguments but I will outline two of them and give a brief defence of each. The first argument I’ll expound is Dr William Lane Craig’s version. Craig is arguably the most popular… (Register to read the rest of the article)