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    It is not the case that When a naturalistic mechanism fully explains a phenomenon, postulating an additional designer violates parsimony.

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    • 1.Parsimony concerns explanation simplicity, not ontological commitment; a designer could be the simpler ultimate cause of multiple mechanisms.
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    • 2.Explaining *how* something works (mechanism) differs from explaining *why* it exists; design and mechanism address different explanatory levels.
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    • 3.Assuming naturalistic mechanisms are 'fully explanatory' begs the question—it presupposes non-design a priori rather than deriving it from evidence.
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    • 1.Occam's Razor requires not multiplying entities beyond necessity; a designer adds an unexplained entity to an already-complete explanation.
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    • 2.If naturalistic mechanisms fully explain a phenomenon, invoking a designer becomes empirically idle—it makes no testable predictions beyond the mechanism.
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    • 3.Allowing designers whenever mechanisms exist permits unfalsifiable explanations and halts scientific inquiry prematurely.
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