This talk presents a summary of Andrew Loke’s book The Teleological and Kalam Cosmological Arguments Revisited (Springer Nature 2022) which formulates an original deductive formulation of the Teleological Argument (TA) demonstrating 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. It also demonstrates that there are essential features of each category such that, while the alternatives to design are unlikely, the Design Hypothesis is not. By combining the TA with the Kalam Cosmological Argument (KCA) which it defends against various objections, it 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 talk will equip you to answer the most cutting-edge objections against the arguments for a Creator.
