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    Supports→The objection from the absence of an efficient cause does not conclusively defeat the argument from design.

    Rejecting the argument from design requires holding both that no efficient cause exists for complex natural order and that no one planned that order.

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    This is a powerful objection, but it is not the end of the debate. Notice that someone who rejects the argument from design is likely to think both that there is no efficient cause of the complex order which we encounter in nature, and that nobody planned the order that we find. But there is no doubt that when a person, say, builds a house that there was somebody who formed the plan to build the house. The question is whether or not that person must have had the power to build it in order to bri

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