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Some of the most serious objections that the Argument from Design has had to meet — in particular, those made by Hume in his Dialogues concerning Natural Religion — have been directed at its character as an analogical argument. In the present chapter I consider some of the chief difficulties that arise, or have been thought to arise, in this connection.
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McPherson, T. (1972). Analogy. In: The Argument from Design. New Studies in the Philosophy of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00746-2_4
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