It is often claimed that, as a result of scientific progress, we now know that the natural world displays no design. Although we have no interest in defending design hypotheses, we will argue that establishing claims to the effect that we know the denials of design hypotheses is more difficult than it seems. We do so by issuing two skeptical challenges to design-deniers. The first challenge draws inspiration from radical skepticism and shows how design claims are at least as compelling as radical skeptical scenarios in undermining knowledge claims, and in fact probably more so. The second challenge takes its cue from skeptical theism and shows how we are typically not in an epistemic position to rule out design.

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设计假设的行为类似于怀疑假设

人们经常声称，由于科学进步，我们现在知道自然界没有设计。尽管我们对捍卫设计假设没有兴趣，但我们会争辩说，证明我们知道否认设计假设的效果比看起来要困难得多。我们通过向设计否认者发出两个怀疑的挑战来做到这一点。第一个挑战从激进的怀疑主义中汲取灵感，并展示了设计主张在破坏知识主张方面如何至少与激进的怀疑论情景一样引人注目，事实上可能更是如此。第二个挑战来自怀疑论的有神论，并表明我们通常不会处于排除设计的认知位置。