ABSTRACT

Contrary to popular misconceptions which is held by many theologians, David Hume and Immanuel Kant did not successfully rebut the arguments of natural theology. These arguments have been around for millennia and—even in our present scientific period—are still being defended today in journals and monographs published by world leading academic publishers. This chapter offers an overview of the contemporary work on some of the arguments of natural theology—in particular the Cosmological, Teleological, and Moral Arguments which have been prominent historically across a wide range of religious and philosophical traditions. I offer a more rigorous deductive formulation of these three arguments and outline how the truth of their premises has been defended in recent literature and subsequent chapters of this book, thus demonstrating the soundness of these arguments which guarantees the truth of the conclusion that God exists.