God must be complex because the only being that could have made the universe would have to be as or more complex than it. The nature of complexity is commensurate with improbability given the slow, blind mechanisms of natural selection. Thus given the improbability of such near-infinite complexity, God almost certainly does not exist.
2007-05-08 09:47:23 · 21 answers · asked by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That's in Richard Dawkins book, The God Delusion, chapter 3, amongst other places.
2007-05-08 09:55:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion is a non-fiction book by British ethologist Richard Dawkins, Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University.
2007-05-08 16:54:44 · answer #2 · answered by Melli 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, it's not circular. A few well placed conditional modifiers and it would begin to make a little sense. It about as poorly worded (but spell-checked) a paragraph from which you could ever hope to elucidate a meaning. It's the argument that God is less probable than a naturalistic universe, via Occam's Razor.
2007-05-08 17:09:34 · answer #3 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is simple.
From simplicity to complexity.
From a still, unmoving center (God) to an infinitely moving system of being (universe).
You are assuming that paper makes paper, but in reality it is tree that makes paper through a complicated human process. Reality is by nature one and only.
So to sum up, God is simple. Man is complex.
2007-05-08 16:51:52 · answer #4 · answered by Julian 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The wording of the statement itself sounds like one of the people that likes to think they know EVERYTHING. It reads like someone that thinks that if they spout enough drivel, that people will just assume they know what they're talking about and not ask any questions. You know, the pompous, obnoxious snobs?
I don't know who the author is.. But I can say that it's the type of argument that just doesn't hold any water in my opinion.
2007-05-08 16:57:35 · answer #5 · answered by RotundSwede 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hmm. Bertrand Russell? Doesn't really phrase things the way Russell did tho.
2007-05-08 16:52:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Darwin
2007-05-08 16:50:54 · answer #7 · answered by James, Pet Guy 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I know absolutely for sure, my mom did not write it.
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2007-05-08 16:50:33 · answer #8 · answered by Dust in the Wind 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Didn't descartes start all that crap then the last part just seems a like poor logic.
2007-05-08 16:51:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Richard Dawkins, and you posted this two weeks ago!
2007-05-08 16:57:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋