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    It is not the case that Nature was designed by an ingenious divine 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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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