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    Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion demonstrates that order in a system is equally explicable by blind necessity, matter's inherent properties, or chance as by rational design.

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    Blind necessity(one explanation for order)
    The idea that things happen because the laws of nature force them to happen, not because anyone planned it that way.
    David Hume(as referenced in the statement)
    An 18th-century Scottish philosopher who argued that our desires and emotions, not reason alone, drive our actions and decisions.
    Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion(the specific work being referenced)
    A famous book by Hume written as conversations between characters debating whether the universe shows signs of being designed by an intelligent creator.
    Matter's inherent properties(another explanation for order)
    The natural characteristics and behaviors that physical stuff has built into it, like how water flows downhill or magnets attract metal.
    Order in a system

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    (what Hume is explaining)
    When things in nature are arranged in a structured, organized, or purposeful-looking way.
    Rational design(the traditional theological explanation for order)
    The idea that something was intentionally created by an intelligent being with a specific purpose in mind.
    explicable(as used in describing what a theory can or cannot explain)
    Able to be explained or accounted for by a theory or reason.
    natural religion(Seventeenth-century Deism)
    A less theologically ramified, more universal religion sought by deistic thinkers as an alternative to traditional religion

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