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| 17-May-2010 02:25 AM Mark |  |
| I think a better response to Dawkins assertion that God must be infinitely more complex than the created order, and therefore highly unlikely to exist is to look at Dawkins' own argument. He contends that it took NO intelligence to create and order things into existence. They merely came into being due to "natural laws". If things can come into existence with NO intelligence, then God doesn't have to be very complex at all. No intelligence will do. Or to put it another way, God does not have to be any more complex than whatever "natural" processes Dawkins purports are those which produced the universe. If "natural" processes can do it, how can he argue that God cannot, since he does not need to be any more complex, and therefore no less likely to exist? In this way, Dawkins' argument really is a nonsense. | |
| 22-Jun-2010 06:44 PM Jonathan McKeown |  |
| Touche! Mark. Unfortunately Dawkins is not interested in logical arguments, only rhetorical. | |
| 29-Jul-2010 04:19 PM Anonymous | |
| I think that you're taking Dawkins' argument out of context; That argument on its own means nothing, as you have correctly interpreted. In "The God Delusion", Dawkins only uses this as a counterargument to the intelligent design argument of us being of "irreducible complexity", and therefore needing a god to create us. | |
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