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    God must exist. — Carmelics
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    God must exist.

    Natural Theology
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    • 1.The world is highly complex and yet orderly.
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    • 2.Such complexity and order requires an all-powerful, all-knowing designer who made the world according to plan.
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    • 1.Natural selection produces the appearance of design through purely mechanical processes without invoking intentional agency.
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    • 2.When a naturalistic mechanism fully explains a phenomenon, postulating an additional designer violates parsimony.
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    • 1.The existence of gratuitous natural evil—suffering serving no discernible purpose—is logically incompatible with an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent creator.
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    • 2.A world containing such evil cannot coherently be the product of the God whose existence the design argument purports to establish.
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    Natural Theology

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    Thomas ReidmodernAnimate Creation 617–618, 623, 629

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    God must exist98%God exists.92%Therefore, it is necessary that God exists.91%God does not exist.89%

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    SEP: reid
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    In the third argument for moral liberty, which is the most obscure of the three, Reid claims that a person could not engage in planned conduct if not endowed with power. Since it's obvious, he thinks, that we do engage in planned conduct, it follows that we must have power over our actions. Reid links the third argument for moral liberty with the argument from design for God's existence. According to the argument from design, God must exist since the world is so complex, and yet so orderly, that
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