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    It is not the case that The design argument falls well short of what it claims to prove

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    Reasons For

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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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    Reasons Against

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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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    Reason against 2 of 2
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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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