ABSTRACT
It has become conventional wisdom that in light of the critiques of Hume and Kant there are no good arguments for the existence of God. But insofar as we mean by a “good argument” an argument which is formally and informally valid and consists of true premises which are more plausible than their negations, there do appear to be good arguments for God’s existence, and there are on the contemporary scene many philosophers who think so. Indeed, it would be fair to say that the rise of analytic philosophy of religion has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in natural theology – that branch of theology which seeks to offer cogent arguments or reasons for God’s existence apart from the resources of authoritative divine revelation. In this chapter I shall focus on the so-called cosmological argument for the existence of God.
