Argument from poor design
(重定向自Suboptimal design)



The argument from poor design, also known as the dysteleological argument, is an argument against the existence of a creator God based on the following reasoning:
The argument is structured as a basic modus tollens: if "creation" contains many defects, then design is not a plausible theory for the origin of our existence. It is most commonly used in a weaker way, however: not with the aim of disproving the existence of God, but rather as a reductio ad absurdum of the well-known argument from design, which runs as follows: