ABSTRACT
The common world is also the world of science, which may be regarded as a kind of glorified or systematized common sense. In these days we all take it for granted that the world is described most accurately by scientists, and many of their ideas have seeped through into our ordinary thinking. But we have also a special purpose in mind: we are trying to see what bearing this common world of ours has on religious belief. It is in relation to this world of unimaginable vastness, energy, and law, that we have to examine the argument from design the teleological proof, as it sometimes is called. This theological inference undoubtedly mirrors a process of thought and feeling present in religious experience itself. Some may compare it in its own sphere with the practical assumption of the scientist that the universe is governed throughout by discoverable law.
