The Critique of Pure Reason, Part 6, Section VI summary

What happens

1. The speaker asks whether the world's observable arrangement can establish the existence of a Supreme Being beyond experience.
2. He praises the design argument for encouraging natural inquiry and strengthening belief, but rejects its claim to demonstrative certainty.
3. He outlines its inference from purposeful natural arrangements to an intelligent cause, whose unity rests on analogy.
4. He argues that observed arrangement supports, at most, an architect working with materials, not a creator of those materials.
5. He denies that finite observations establish unlimited power, perfect wisdom, or the absolute unity of a supreme cause.
6. He concludes that physico-theology depends on cosmological reasoning, which in turn depends on the ontological proof.

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