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    It is not the case that The world is created by a divine will — a superior power capable of bringing humans into existence, maintaining them, or destroying them

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    • 1.Hume's Dialogues show that inferring a perfect divine will from observed effects commits an analogical fallacy: effects only license proportionate causes.
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    • 2.The world's mixture of order and disorder warrants at most a finite, imperfect cause, not an omnipotent sustaining will.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Spinoza demonstrates that a self-causing substance need not be a personal will but can be an impersonal necessary nature (Deus sive Natura).
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    • 2.The argument's move from 'self-causing' to 'superior divine will' illicitly smuggles in personhood, which the logical structure of the proof does not establish.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Sensation indicates that a creative being must exist
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    • 2.The creative being cannot be less perfect than human will
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    • 3.The creative being cannot be human, because reflection reveals that humans are not self-causing
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