The Argument from Reason (Part 1)

In my opinion, the argument from reason is one of the most compelling arguments in natural theology. As with any argument in natural theology, what we call "the argument from reason" is actually a family of arguments. In fact, there are quite a lot of different arguments that count as arguments from reason. But there are four in particular that, taken together, push me toward theism. In this post I will discuss the first argument, which is probably the least complicated of the four, and which is also only aimed at one very specific type of atheism. But before I do that, I want to make some brief introductory comments about how this kind of argument is meant to work.