Return of the God Hypothesis: Breakthroughs in Physics, Cosmology, and Biology Seeking Evidence for the Existence of God

by Stephen C. Meyer

what about the argument that this book presents not just for an intelligent designer of unspecified identity, but specifically for a theistic designer and creator—a God hypothesis—as the best explanation for biological and cosmological origins? Is it a GOTG argument? Again, it is not. Though the argument presented here does concern events that confront materialistic accounts of the origin of the universe and life with causal discontinuities or explanatory gaps, it does not affirm the existence or activity of God solely on the basis of those gaps. Instead, it uses straightforward considerations of causal adequacy along with parsimony and other theoretical virtues14 to assess the explanatory power of competing metaphysical hypotheses and to present theism as an inference to the best explanation, not an argument from ignorance.