Sextus Empiricus reports ancient design arguments. “Just as the man who is familiar with ships, as soon as he sees in the distance a ship with a favouring wind behind it and with all its sails well set, concludes that there is somebody who directs its course and brings it into its appointed havens, so too those who first looked up to heaven and beheld the sun running its courses from east to west and the orderly processions of the stars sought for the Artificer of this most beautiful array, conjecturing that it had not come about spontaneously but by the agency of some superior and
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