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    The design argument falls well short of what it claims to... — Carmelics
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    The design argument falls well short of what it claims to prove

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    • 1.Even granting strong analogy, analogical reasoning can only establish a designer proportional in power to the observed effect.
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    • 2.The universe contains vast suffering, waste, and imperfection incompatible with an omnipotent, omnibenevolent designer.
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    • 3.Hume's Philo establishes that a finite, imperfect, or even multiple designers remain equally supported by the evidence.
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    • 1.Darwinian natural selection provides a non-intentional, mechanistic explanation for the appearance of biological design.
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    • 2.When a competing hypothesis explains the same evidence without positing agency, inference to a designer loses its abductive force.
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    • 3.A design inference is only warranted when design is the best explanation, not merely a possible one.
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    • 1.The design argument is based on an analogy between the world and human productions
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    • 2.Legitimate analogical inference requires close resemblance or exact similarity between the objects being compared
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    • 3.The resemblance between the world and human productions is weak, not exact
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    Philo maintains that this argument, although methodologically sound in so far as it is based on experience and not on a priori reasoning, nevertheless falls well short of what it claims to prove. The first point that Philo draws our attention to is the weakness of the analogy between the world and “human productions”. When there is a close resemblance or “exact similarity” among objects then we may infer a similar cause.
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