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    It is not the case that Udayana in Nyāyakusumāñjali argues that Īśvara's agency is established through inference to the best explanation of ordered complexity, not by direct perceptual analogy to embodied artisans.

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    • 1.Inference to best explanation still implicitly relies on analogy: we infer divine agency because it resembles how human artisans explain order.
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    • 2.Natural selection and evolutionary mechanisms can explain biological complexity without invoking conscious design, undermining the inference's force.
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    • 3.The claim that Īśvara is the 'best explanation' remains unproven; competing materialist or impersonal explanations are equally parsimonious.
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    • 1.Inference to best explanation avoids the problem that embodied artisans require material bodies, which Īśvara cannot possess.
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    • 2.Cosmic order exhibits complexity that exceeds what finite, embodied causes could produce without invoking an infinite, omniscient designer.
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    • 3.Inferential arguments ground theism in rational demonstration rather than mere analogy, making the conclusion more epistemically rigorous.
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