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    The cause of the universe must be intelligent — Carmelics
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    The cause of the universe must be intelligent

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    • 1.The universe is supremely beautiful
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    • 2.A supremely beautiful world could not be the effect of an unintelligent cause
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    • 1.Natural selection and physical laws can generate complex, ordered, apparently purposive structures without any directing intelligence.
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    • 2.What appears 'supremely beautiful' reflects evolved human perceptual biases, not an objective property requiring intelligent authorship.
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    • 1.Epicurus and Lucretius demonstrated that atomic swerve and void can produce cosmological order through purely mechanistic aggregation over infinite time.
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    • 2.If unintelligent causes operating over sufficient time necessarily produce some ordered universe, the inference from beauty to intelligence commits the lottery fallacy.
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    Given familiar Platonic doctrines and assumptions, the argument up to the intermediate conclusion that the universe has a cause of its becoming (7) presents no particular difficulties. But 7 by itself gives only partial support to 8.[13] Here it helps to anticipate 9d as a fundamental premise in Timaeus’ reasoning; it is not just the generation of any world, but that of a supremely beautiful one that Timaeus’ reasoning here—and in fact throughout the discourse—attempts to explain. That a world
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