Detractors of design sometimes object that on this hypothesis the Cosmic Designer Himself remains unexplained. This objection is what Richard Dawkins calls “the central argument of my book” The God Delusion.[2] He summarizes his argument as follows: 1. One of the greatest challenges to the human intellect has been to explain how the complex, improbable appearance of design in the universe arises. 2. The natural temptation is to attribute the appearance of design to actual design itself. 3. The temptation is a false one because the designer hypothesis immediately raises the larger problem of
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