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Since the whole range of objections against the teleological<br />

argument as correctly formulated has been found to be invalid<br />

and freighted with both logical and experiential contradiction, I<br />

therefore conclude that the teleological argument is valid and<br />

that the absolutely necessary being is a personal intelligence<br />

whose nature is absolute goodness.<br />

Conclusion on the Whole Destructive Argument of Critical<br />

Naturalism<br />

The rational case for theism has at last emerged triumphant<br />

over its foes at every point of debate: the clouds of objection<br />

fade into mist and the mist vanishes into oblivion until now we<br />

stand unquestionably confronted with the divine Being Himself.<br />

Since both the cosmological and the teleological arguments<br />

have been defended against the objections of a destructive naturalism.<br />

I therefore con- [[365]] clude that these arguments are<br />

valid, that God exists as the ultimate explanation and ground of<br />

the whole <strong>com</strong>plex of reality: God, that is, as the absolutely<br />

necessary being of intelligent nature which embodies absolute<br />

goodness.<br />

CONCLUSION<br />

Our path ahs been long, but it has brought us at last to the<br />

general answer for the questions with which our investigation<br />

began: the broad outlines of a philosophy may not be asserted.<br />

The problem of epistemology has been solved in terms of a<br />

rational empiricism which teaches that all knowledge is a union<br />

of categorical and experiential elements: the mind <strong>com</strong>es to ex-

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