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    It is not the case that We can rationally infer the existence of God and God's similarity to human mind and intelligence

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    • 1.The analogy between the world and man-made machines is too weak and disanalogous to sustain confident causal inference, as Hume argues in Dialogues Part II.
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    • 2.When analogical reasoning is applied to a singular, unique object like the universe, the inference loses the inductive strength derived from repeated observed instances.
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    • 3.A weakened analogy yields only a proportionally weakened conclusion, making any inferred designer radically unlike the omnipotent, omniscient God of theism.
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    • 1.The principle that order requires an intelligent cause leads to infinite regress, since the designer's mind must itself exhibit order requiring explanation.
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    • 2.Positing an necessarily ordered divine mind as a brute fact is no more parsimonious than positing the world's order as a brute fact, as Philo argues in Dialogues Part IV.
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    • 3.If matter can be conceived as capable of self-ordering through natural selection or Epicurean chance configurations, the design inference loses its claim to explanatory superiority.
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    • 1.There is an analogy or resemblance between the world and man-made machines in respect of their shared features of order, structure, harmony, and the evident way that their parts are suited to perform some function or serve certain ends
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    • 2.When we discover an object that has features of order, structure, and harmony, we infer that these objects have not come together by chance, but rather that there is an original principle of order in mind, not in matter
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    • 3.Similar effects must arise from similar causes
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