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  • Comments have been moved to chat; please do not continue the discussion here. Before posting a comment below this one, please review the purposes of comments. Comments that do not request clarification or suggest improvements usually belong as an answer, on Philosophy Meta, or in Philosophy Chat. Comments continuing discussion may be removed. Commented Feb 2, 2024 at 10:29
  • I think you'll find this article to be a good read, it's an Aristotelian-Thomist explanation for a similarly imagined scenario: Signature in the cell? Commented Feb 2, 2024 at 14:46
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    Futurama has entered the chat. Commented Feb 2, 2024 at 15:21
  • i'm not sure it would justify a designer, but they might feek kinda smug about it Commented Feb 2, 2024 at 17:46
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    I feel like this question is just a tautology in the form of a question. The (a), (b), and (c) conditions imposed are pretty unrealistic. It seems like you're coming very close to asking, "If you could rule out everything except a supernatural being as a cause, would the cause have to be a supernatural being?" Commented Feb 3, 2024 at 4:17