If natural order admits of immanent causal explanation (e.g., Spinoza's natura naturans), the inference from design to a transcendent planner is logically blocked before power becomes relevant.

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Immanent causal explanation(as used in metaphysics): An explanation for why things happen that comes from causes already existing within nature itself, rather than from something outside or beyond nature.
Logically blocked(as describing what happens to the design argument): When reasoning or a chain of argument is prevented from reaching a particular conclusion because the logic doesn't work that way.
Natural order(as used in philosophy of science and metaphysics): The way things in nature work and behave according to regular patterns and laws, without needing anything supernatural to explain them.
Spinoza: Baruch Spinoza was a 17th-century Dutch philosopher who argued that God and nature are the same thing, and that everything in the universe is interconnected as one unified whole. He believed that understanding how things work through reason and logic—rather than through emotion or superstition—leads to happiness and freedom. His ideas were revolutionary for his time and continue to influence modern philosophy, theology, and how we think about the relationship between mind and body.

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