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    Nature was designed by an ingenious divine designer — Carmelics
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    Nature was designed by an ingenious divine designer

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    • 1.The workings of nature can be explained in terms of elegant physical laws
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    • 2.Elegant physical laws suggest the ingenuity of a designer
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    • 1.Natural phenomena exhibit vast amounts of apparent dysfunction, waste, and suffering inconsistent with ingenious design (Hume, Dialogues XI).
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    • 2.If elegance in physical laws constitutes evidence for a designer, widespread biological suffering and extinction constitute equal evidence against a benevolent ingenious one.
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    • 3.The argument from elegant laws selectively emphasizes favorable data while ignoring disconfirming evidence, violating standards of scientific inference.
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    • 1.Natural selection operating on random variation produces the appearance of design without requiring a designer (Darwin, 1859).
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    • 2.A process that explains designed-like complexity through purely mechanical means removes the inferential need for an intelligent cause.
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    In the seventeenth century, the explanation of the workings of nature in terms of elegant physical laws suggested the ingenuity of a divine designer. The design argument reached its peak during the seventeenth and early eighteenth century (McGrath 2011). For example, Samuel Clarke (1705: part XI, cited in Schliesser 2012: 451) proposed an a posteriori argument from design by appealing to Newtonian science, calling attention to the
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