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Hume's Critique of Design

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Hume's critique: the universe-to-artifact analogy is weak—we have seen watches made, never universes—and order alone does not certify a designer.

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In the Dialogues, Philo piles up rivals: many designers, an apprentice god, a universe more like a plant than a machine.