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Gifford Lecture 1st May 2012 - A New 'Ethico-Teleological' Argument for God's Existence

"Teleology Reviewed: A New 'Ethico-Teleological' Argument for God's Existence" In the fifth lecture of the Aberdeen Gifford Lecture Series 2012, Professor Sarah Coakley takes up the challenges left by the last two lectures, and now confronts the contentious and multi-levelled question about "teleology" in evolution. Noting Darwin's famous ambivalence on the topic, and the subsequently fierce resistance to the idea in secular biology, Coakley underscores how difficult it has been for working biology to dispose of the notion of teleology altogether, and how vital it is to distinguish various different theoretical levels at which the idea might be applicable. The lecture ends with a new "ethico-teleological" argument for God's existence, drawing on unfinished business from both Aristotelian and Kantian traditions. This argument escapes the usual modern salvoes against such, Coakley argues, by a number of ploys: by pointing to the hermeunetical and metaphysical contestability of evolutionary theory itself; by denying that "God" is competing as a "bit-player" in the temporal evolutionary process; by overcoming the characteristic "fact/value" disjunction of much modern philosophy and theology; and by insisting on an affective, as well as noetic, response to the argument's force. Sacrifice Regained: Evolution, Cooperation and God In this series, Professor Sarah Coakley explores the implications of recent developments in the mathematical study of "evolutionary dynamics" for ethics, metaphysics, the philosophy of science and theology. Arguing that the last decades of the twentieth century saw a notable failure of nerve in universal accounts of religious rationality, and a simultaneous obsession with the "selfishness" of evolutionary phenomena, Coakley seeks to clarify afresh the importance of the countervailing sacrificial dimensions of evolutionary processes for central issues in the philosophy of science and ethics. Thereby she moves to suggest a transformed way forward in the task of "natural theology".