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PhilGoetz,
And I'll give the same reply as i gave to Tim Tyler. :)
Hitchens did not mention entropy or complexity. He mentioned exactly and only the why-regress, the exact same why-regress that all scientific hypotheses are subject to. Perhaps the objection you raise to theism would have been good for Hitchens to give, but it is not the objection Hitchens gave.
It looks to me like people are trying to make Hitchens look good by putting smarter words in his mouth than the ones he actually spoke.
You are technically correct. Your initial remarks misled me, for the reasons given by Kaj Sotala below. But it's a good example, if I read it carefully and literally, so don't take that as a criticism.
Thanks.