Further Thoughts on the Argument from Reason

In the past three months I've been doing a lot of work on a new writing project, and not the writing project I expected to be devoting time to this year (which means my planned update for my first book is being delayed, but I'm okay with that). The new project is focused on natural theology. In light of some of my recent posts I've been wanting to write a book about why I'm drawn to deism. One of the chapters is about the argument from reason.

I've written a few posts about that argument already and was planning to write a fourth. In fact, a long unfinished fourth post has been sitting in my drafts for two months now. But the reason I never finished it is that I discovered some points in my thinking about this argument that needed to be worked out in better detail. I'm still working it out, so my thoughts on this argument are still unfinished, but it might be helpful to write out some of what I've been thinking about.