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    It is not the case that If we attribute wisdom to a being sufficient to plan the creation of the world, we must also attribute to that being the power sufficient to execute that plan.

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    • 1.The analogy between human builders and a divine creator breaks down because human planners operate within pre-existing causal structures that constrain both plan and execution.
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    • 2.A being might possess sufficient intelligence to conceive an optimal cosmic order while lacking the ontological power to actualize it from nothing, as Plato's Demiurge in the Timaeus is limited by the recalcitrance of pre-existing matter.
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    • 3.Therefore, wisdom sufficient to plan creation does not entail omnipotent power, but only power sufficient to work within or upon some prior substrate.
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    • 1.Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion establishes that inferences about an artisan's capacities are properly constrained by the observed quality of the artifact alone.
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    • 2.The observed universe contains significant disorder, suffering, and apparent design failures that, on analogical reasoning, license only modest attributions of power to its cause.
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    • 3.An inference from 'wise enough to plan' to 'powerful enough to execute' illicitly assumes the plan was perfectly executed, which is precisely what the evidence of natural evil and imperfection calls into question.
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    • 1.In cases of planned conduct by persons, the attribution of wisdom to form a plan goes hand-in-hand with the attribution of power to execute it.
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    • 2.When a person builds a house, the person who formed the plan is assumed to have had the power to bring the plan to fruition.
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    • 3.If someone was wise enough to plan the order found in nature, then by the same principle we must also judge that person powerful enough to create it.
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