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Re:The Closed Mind of Richard Dawkins (2014) by matthewtoast on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @03:09PM (#10814041)
The God Delusion gives a handful of arguments both for and against the existence of God. Your summary comes across as a straw-man, a misrepresentation that's supposed to convince us that the real argument is poor. Where did he make this before/after argument?

Intelligent design is just one hypothesis among many to explain the complexity (the apparent "design") of the universe. But it posits the existence of an even more complex entity. If we really need intelligent design to explain where eyeballs and bird wings came from, why don't we also need an explanation of the omnipotent designer?

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Re:The Closed Mind of Richard Dawkins (2014) by micwawa on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @04:04PM (#10814355)
Yes, there's a handful of arguments, but at some point in the introduction he says (I don't have the book in front of me, so this is my best memory) that the main argument in the book will be the Boeing 747 Gambit, presented in Chapter 4. This is why I read the book. Then, he goes on to describe how unlikely it would be for God to form completely by chance. In order for this argument to make any sense, he has to assume that God happening by chance is something happens inside of the universe (or some universe).

There's a few too many straw-men running around here. I'm attempting to summarize my view of an argument, and asking if that's correct.

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