In the first Gifford Lectures to be delivered at the University of Edinburgh, Stirling discusses the following two questions: What is Natural Theology? Are there proofs of God’s existence? He traces ‘arguments from Design’, referencing Anaxagoras, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, various Christian and Eastern philosophers from the Middle Ages, and the writings of David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Char