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    Organisms are in fact designed. — Carmelics
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    Organisms are in fact designed.

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    • 1.Biological phenomena are frequently design-like enough that design language fits living systems extraordinarily well.
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    • 2.Theorizing as if organisms are designed meets with great success in generating fruitful theoretical conceptions.
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    • 3.The best explanation for why treating organisms as designed is so successful is that they actually are designed.
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    • 1.Darwinian natural selection produces complexity that mimics design without any designer, as Darwin demonstrated in 1859.
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    • 2.The success of design-language in biology is explained by selection pressure producing function, not by actual intentional design.
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    • 3.Inferring a real designer from the utility of a design-heuristic commits the fallacy of reifying a methodological convenience into an ontological fact.
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    • 1.Biological systems exhibit pervasive imperfections—vestigial organs, suboptimal structures—inconsistent with competent intentional design.
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    • 2.Gould and Lewontin's 1979 'spandrels' argument shows functional appearance often results from structural constraint, not optimization toward a goal.
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    • 3.A genuinely designed system would not systematically preserve the historical accidents and phylogenetic baggage that organisms demonstrably carry.
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    SEP: teleological-arguments
    Advocates of design arguments
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    Whether or not particular biological phenomena are designed, they are frequently enough design-like to make design language not only fit living systems extraordinarily well, but to undergird generation of fruitful theoretical conceptions as well.[4] Advocates of design arguments claim that the reason why theorizing as if organisms are designed meets with such success is that organisms are in fact designed. Those opposed would say that all teleological concepts in biology must, in one way or another, be reduced to natural selection.
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    Validity: The extracted argument accurately captures the inference made by "advocates of design arguments" as presented in the passage, where premises 1 and 2 are explicitly stated and premise 3 represents the inference-to-best-explanation reasoning attributed to those advocates.

    Confidence: Clear argument attributed to advocates of design arguments.

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