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    It is not the case that God must exist.

    ?Set your confidence on the premises below to see your aggregate.

    Reasons For

    2 perspectives
    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.Natural selection produces the appearance of design through purely mechanical processes without invoking intentional agency.
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      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.When a naturalistic mechanism fully explains a phenomenon, postulating an additional designer violates parsimony.
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      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 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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      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reasons Against

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    Reason against
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    • 1.The world is highly complex and yet orderly.
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      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.Such complexity and order requires an all-powerful, all-knowing designer who made the world according to plan.
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      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

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