God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion by Victor J. Stenger

Author:Victor J. Stenger
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781616145996
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2012-04-24T00:00:00+00:00

The point Dawkins was making is that if Dembski,33 Behe,34 and their supporters in the intelligent design movement are correct that complexity can only arise from higher complexity, then God would be even more complex and an explanation would then have to be found for his complexity. But Dawkins does not believe for a moment that this is the case. I have personally checked with him to confirm that he agrees with my interpretation of his words. No one has been more eloquent than Richard Dawkins in describing how complexity arises from simplicity in biology, so it is ludicrous to say he supports the intelligent design view.

Incidentally, when Dawkins says the existence of God is “technically unprovable,” he is also not disagreeing with me. I concur that we cannot disprove the existence of all conceivable gods by logic alone. The argument I presented in God: The Failed Hypothesis—that God does not exist beyond a reasonable doubt—is a scientific one. It is based on the fact that the theist (as opposed to the deist) God should be detectable by his actions in the world but has not been.

Now, as with the first cause argument of Aristotle and Aquinas, an infinite regress is avoided by saying that God had no prior cause or designer. But once you accept the logical possibility that an entity exists that had no prior cause or designer, then you have to prove why that entity can't be a godless universe.

In any case, Christian apologists are tilting at windmills. It is an incontrovertible fact about the natural world that simpler systems evolve into more complex ones without always needing the hand of a conscious craftsman.

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