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    Challenges→The teleological argument generates an absurd infinite regress and therefore fails as an explanation for the order of the universe.

    The teleological argument explains order and apparent design in the material universe by appealing to divine intelligence.

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    One of Hume’s neglected objections to the teleological argument is that it generates an absurd infinite regress (Part IV). If order and apparent design in the material universe are explained by divine intelligence, what explains the order and apparent design that give rise to intelligence in the divine mind? By dint of the reasoning employed in the teleological argument, it would have to be a super-divine intelligence. But what explains the order and apparent design that give rise to super-divin

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