Liron comments on The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship - Less Wrong

177 Post author: lukeprog 05 January 2011 07:22AM

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Comment author: billswift 05 January 2011 02:09:03PM 10 points [-]

More specifically it is completely rational to use that argument against theists, because one of their arguments for god is that the world is too complex not to have been designed; so in that circumstance you are just pointing out that their claim is just pushing the complexity back one step. If the world is so complex that it needs a designer, then so is god.

Comment author: Vaniver 05 January 2011 02:14:26PM 1 point [-]

If the world is so complex that it needs a designer, then so is god.

Unless God is too complex to be designed :P

Comment author: Liron 05 January 2011 03:58:26PM *  4 points [-]

Or God is in the first Quine-capable level of some designer hierarchy, like a Universal Turing Machine among lesser models of computation.