ABSTRACT
The design arguments of natural theology are arguments for the existence of God. The designer has even been argued to be like an idol, a false image of God. On the other hand, some theological critics of Intelligent Design (ID) have drawn the opposite conclusion from ID's separation between the designer and God: that ID's image of the Creator is too far removed from the Christian God to be credible theologically. Relating this critique to the discussion on natural theology will be instructive, since in some critiques of natural theology it is also argued that there is an insurmountable difference between the God of the philosophers' and the God of Christianity. The critique of idolatry springs from two very different sources. The first is the Barthian argument that Christian theology. The critique of ontotheology is that using God as an explanation inevitably makes God into just another creature among creatures, part of the system of the world.
