Ultimate Designer

Abstract

I explain how philosophy, science and theology can continue to work together concerning the issue of ultimate origins. In reply to the objection that we should try to find a scientific explanation rather than accepting the conclusion of design, the KCA-TA demonstrates that the ultimate explanation cannot be a scientific one, because the first event must have been brought about by a First Cause with libertarian freedom and not by a mechanism describable by a law of nature. Moreover, the KCA-TA is not a God-of-the-gaps argument because it is not based on gaps in our understanding which can be filled by further progress in science. Rather, the KCA-TA is based on reasons. For example, it is because there are reasons for thinking that an infinite regress of causes is impossible, therefore there must be a First Cause. While the progress of science would generate newer theories to explain various aspects of the physical world, it would not replace the First Cause (Creator) as the ultimate explanation for why the physical world exists in the first place, as demonstrated by the KCA-TA.