If matter can be conceived as capable of self-ordering through natural selection or Epicurean chance configurations, the design inference loses its claim to explanatory superiority.
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explanatory superiority(what the statement says does NOT necessarily mean something is true)
When one explanation seems better or more convincing than another at accounting for the facts.
matter(Kant's critical epistemology, agreeing with Leibniz on this point)
Not a thing in itself with mind-independent characteristics, but an appearance — objects as presented to human perception, characterized by shape, contact, and movement.
natural selection(Endler's critique of Shanahan's continuum account)
A process standardly requiring heritability as a necessary condition, distinguishable from random drift; when heritability is removed as a condition, natural selection trivially reduces to the observation that phenotypic differences exist