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We are not out of the woods with this response however. Hume countered if the best answer is that there is an intelligent designer, then we still have to give an account for why the designer has a mind that is so well fitted for designing. If the design comes from the designer where does the designer come from? Either way we end up with an infinite regress.

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Anna Case-Winters

A revised version of this paper was published in Zygon, March 2000, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 69-81.

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