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The teleological argument is the case from design. Teleological means “directed towards some goal.”  [1]  Sir Thomas Aquinas believed the fingerprint of God was on nature. Life’s processes and components appeared to have purpose. And their purpose was designed by a creator. According to Aquinas the natural world governed. Aquinas wrote, We see how things, like natural bodies, work for an end even though they have no knowledge. The fact that they nearly always operate in the same way, and so as to achieve the maximum good, makes this obvious, and shows that they attain their end by design, not by chance…There is therefore an intelligent being by whom all natural things are directed to their end [2]    Aquinas posited that nature shows signs of design by its working order. This is seen in natural things as they exist for a purpose with an appearance of design.                  One o...

Why is there something rather nothing? How come the universe exists? We does the earth exist? Why are we here? Again, why is there something rather than nothing? This is a question people have been trying to answer for thousands of years. Many today would suggest that the universe is just a brute fact. But a many others suggests it's here because it was intelligently designed. Over the course of three blogs, we'll look at cosmology, the detection  of design, and teleology. Let's begin with cosmology. The first argument for intelligent design is the cosmological argument. Simply put, the cosmological argument is the argument for causation. Professor and apologist, William Lane Craig has championed this defense in three parts: “Whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore the universe has a cause.” [1] In other words, there must be a first cause.  However, this is Professor of Physics Edward Tryton’s conclusion, “Our universe is simply ...

There is a tension in our culture today. Some are shouting “God is dead! There is no God!” While others contend that if there is a god, surely he is unworthy of any praise. He has abandoned us. Richard Dawkins states in his book The God Delusion “ The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”  Is this assessment true? If God is a God of love, can He truly be a God of judgment?  Is Dawkins right? Was God more focused on justice in the OT and focused on grace in the NT?  And why does God seem so different between the Old Testament and the New Testament?  With the daunting task of reading you will find God’s love, mercy, and judgment in the Old Testament and God’s lo...