Teleological Argument, Intelligent Design, Immanent Creator

The most enduring of the Medieval Proofs of the Existence of God has been Aquinas' 'Teleological Argument', according to which organization in Nature is evidence of its deliberate creator.  The argument has faced some formidable opposition: Hume rejects the inference from finite creation to infinite creation that is implicit in the argument, while Kant removes Teleology from Theoretical Reason, in order to incorporate the proof into his own Practical argument.  Nevertheless, the Teleological Argument has survived, though under the rubric of 'Intelligent Design', and has been a staple in recent Theological defenses against Darwinism.  Now, though apparently not recognized as such, the name change signifies a more substantive variation--a shift from the attribution of Teleological Causality to the deity, to the attribution of Formal Causality.  But, as such, a different counter-argument is suggested--not one that disproves the existence of a deity, but one that proves the existence of a deity other than Aquinas'.  That alternative deity is Spinoza's, and, perhaps that of some Stoics--an immanent principle that self-creates via Formal Causality, the structures of which are what Aquinas and his successors perceive as Natural organization.  Furthermore, on that basis, the analogy from finite to infinite that Hume challenges is inverted--finite creativity is a Mode of infinite creativity in Spinoza's doctrine.  So, Evolutionists have at their disposal a further counter to persistent Theology, even if they do not draw upon Hume or Kant for it.