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    It is not the case that The objection from the absence of an efficient cause does not conclusively defeat the argument from design.

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    • 1.Hume's Philo demonstrates that complex order can arise from principles of generation intrinsic to matter itself, requiring no external efficient cause.
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    • 2.If natural order admits of immanent causal explanation (e.g., Spinoza's natura naturans), the inference from design to a transcendent planner is logically blocked before power becomes relevant.
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    • 3.The supporting argument's premise P1 thus begs the question by treating the absence of an efficient cause as conceded rather than as the very point under dispute.
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    • 1.Kant's Critique of Pure Reason establishes that efficient causation is a category applicable only within possible experience, not to a supposed cause of the empirical world as a whole.
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    • 2.Because the argument from design requires projecting the wisdom-power nexus onto a being outside the causal order, the supporting argument's P2 illegitimately extends an intra-experiential concept beyond its constitutive limits.
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    • 3.The inseparability of wisdom and power cannot rescue the design argument if the very application of causal categories to a transcendent designer is epistemically impermissible.
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    • 1.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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    • 2.The hand-in-hand attribution of wisdom and power means that conceding a planner sufficient in wisdom entails conceding a planner sufficient in power.
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    • 3.These two commitments together undercut the force of the objection against the argument from design.
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