April 22, 1724

Kant argued for the existence of god on various grounds, but one of interest to us now, is his argument regarding causality. Immanuel Kant  (April 22, 1724 to  February 12, 1804) points out that as we look around at our world we observe how everything fits together, how the atmosphere allows for infants to suck, as well as clouds to form and allow shade on the garden, so that certain plants can grow without getting dried out first. The way everything locks together so our world flows and grows, is an argument for a deity on the grounds that all this interconnectedness, all this finite causality must ITSELF have a cause. The fact that everything fits together, argues that the is a greater ground, causing everything, to fit together. The alternative is to assume it is just random chance that everything connects, the bees and the flowers, for instance. 

Most of the examples here, of how things fit together, are not the exact ones Kant used. But one of his examples was the claws of cats and lions--- the specific fact they retract. Thus the claws are kept sharp for the purpose of catching prey. The sheathing of claws thus connects with a full stomach on the cat's part. This is the fitting together Kant says points to a common ground allowing causality among the various items in the world.

This and other Kantian arguments can be found in Metaphysical Works of the Celebrated Immanuel Kant, translated by John Richardson (1836).

Nowadays philosophical arguments are countered by being ignored, by intellectuals. So no real growth happens at the academic level and the real questions prompting inquiry are not even addressed, much less fit together. The real questions about our world have been forgotten and their absence makes a poor argument for the existence, of, the human intellect.