Science, Theism, and a Contemporary Teleological Argument for the Existence of God

Graeme McLean (Charles Sturt University)

This seminar explores how some basic findings of modern physics and some contemporary work in analytic philosophy of religion can be brought together in the construction of an interesting and accessible teleological argument for the existence of God.

Dr Graeme McLean is Senior Lecturer and Philosophy Coordinator in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga. He is a graduate of Monash and Oxford universities, and from 1990 to 2004 he was a member of the Department of Philosophy of the University of  the  Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He teaches especially in Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion, and Applied Ethics. He has a longstanding interest in the philosophical connections between science and Christianity.  

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