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    The universe must have been designed by an intelligent creator

    Natural Theology
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    • 1.In ordinary life, non-intelligent agents never produce purposive design
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    • 2.The universe is suitable for human life, just as benches and pleasure gardens are designed for human use
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    • 3.The universe is so complex that even an intelligent craftsman cannot fully comprehend it
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    • 1.Hume's Dialogues show that analogical reasoning from human artifacts to cosmic origins commits a category error: the universe is unique and unlike any artifact.
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    • 2.A valid analogical argument requires multiple observed instances of universe-creation to establish which causes produce which effects, but we observe only one universe.
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    • 3.Without a reference class of universes, the inference to 'intelligent design' over 'natural process' is epistemically ungrounded, not merely uncertain.
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    • 1.Darwin's theory of natural selection demonstrates that cumulative, undirected processes can produce the appearance of purposive complexity without invoking intelligence.
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    • 2.Paley's watchmaker analogy collapses once we distinguish between true artifacts (designed top-down) and evolved systems (built bottom-up through differential reproduction).
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    • 3.If natural selection suffices to explain biological complexity—the strongest case for design—the inference to a designer loses its most empirically compelling evidence.
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    The universe must be the product of an intelligent designer92%The cause of the universe must be intelligent79%If even intelligent craftsmen cannot comprehend the universe's complex...78%Nature was designed by an ingenious divine designer78%

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    Natural theology also flourished in the pre-colonial period, especially in the Advaita Vedānta, a darśana that identifies the self, ātman, with ultimate reality, Brahman. Advaita Vedāntin philosopher Adi Śaṅkara (fl. first half eighth century) was an author who regarded Brahman as the only reality, both the material and the efficient cause of the cosmos. Śaṅkara formulated design and cosmological arguments, drawing on analogies between the world and artifacts: in ordinary life, we never see non
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