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"Just look around yourself, everything around us is so intelligently organized. Obviously this world must have been created by an intelligent God." Which of the following fallacy is committed in the above argument?

AHasty Generalization
BBegging the question ✓ Correct
CEquivocation
DSlippery slope
Correct answer: (B) Begging the question
Explanation

The argument commits the fallacy of begging the question.

It describes the world as intelligently organized and then concludes it was made by an intelligent designer.

But calling the arrangement intelligent already assumes the very designing intelligence to be proved.

The conclusion is thus smuggled into the premise, so the reasoning moves in a circle.

Assuming what one sets out to prove is petitio principii, or begging the question.

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