Detecting design or intent in nature

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I don't think this line actually harms Heywood's arguments. Nothing personal, but the God idea in its essence represents a remedy to infinte regression. So in a world where you can accept that God represents that philosophical quantity, formula or entity which remedies infinite regress, there's no problem seeing God as the creator of the first evolutionary systems, or of a universe of which evolutionary systems will be guaranteed to pop up.

Oh, i don't think heywood should want to commit suicide by capping an argument about what does and doesn't have observational evidence by pinning his position on god.