ABSTRACT
William Lane Craig’s case for the existence of God is predominantly explanatory in nature. His four arguments for theism scrupulously follow the pattern of inference to the best explanation. The history of the theory of explanation is almost hopelessly convoluted. Antony Flew is quite willing to accept that the universe had a beginning. But he favours the notion of ‘the universe popping into existence out of nothing’. Pretty obviously, this notion has not one iota of explanatory power. Developments in astrophysics have given theists a crowbar to pry open fresh consideration of the design hypothesis. But also in the realm of biology there have been novel developments that cannot simply be ignored by naturalists accustomed to reposing in the explanatory power of Darwinian or neo-Darwinian natural selection. Craig’s third explanatory argument for theism is an argument from Objective moral values in the world’.
