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    There may be more than one God involved in the creation o... — Carmelics
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    There may be more than one God involved in the creation of the universe

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    • 1.The analogy between the universe and human artifacts does not rule out multiple creators
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    • 2.Human artifacts are often produced by multiple collaborators
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    • 3.We can only infer a cause proportioned to the observed effect
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    • 1.The principle of parsimony (Ockham's Razor) prohibits multiplying entities beyond necessity when a single cause suffices to explain the observed effect.
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    • 2.A single omnipotent creator is logically sufficient to account for the universe's existence, making plural creators an ontologically extravagant hypothesis.
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    • 3.Leibniz argued that God's sufficiency as a complete explanatory ground renders competing co-creators redundant within any adequate cosmological account.
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    • 1.The design argument's analogical inference is weakened, not strengthened, by extending the human artifact analogy to include collaborative creation, since the analogy already fails at the cosmic scale.
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    • 2.Philo's own concession in Hume's Dialogues is that weakening the analogy to admit multiple gods simultaneously undermines confidence in any theistic inference drawn from that analogy.
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    • 3.An argument that proves too much—admitting polytheism, a finite god, or a morally imperfect creator—collapses into skepticism about all causal inferences regarding the universe's origin.
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    Any experimental reasoning of the kind that the argument from design employs must ensure that the cause is proportioned to the effect. That is to say, we cannot “ascribe to the cause any qualities, but what are exactly sufficient to produce them” (EU, 11.12–3/136; D, 5.8/168). If we follow this principle, however, we are no longer in a position to assign several fundamental attributes to God. We cannot, for example, attribute any thing infinite to God based on our observation and experience of f
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