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Comment author: loup-vaillant 01 March 2013 07:03:30PM 0 points [-]

Explaining complexity through God suffers from various questions

Whose answers tend to just be "Poof Magic". While I do have a problem with "Poof Magic", I can't explain it away without quite deep scientific arguments. And "Poof Magic", while unsatisfactory to any properly curious mind, have no complexity problem.

Now that I think of it, I may have to qualify the argument I made above. I didn't know about Hume, so maybe the God Hypothesis wasn't so good even before Newton and Darwin after all. At least assuming the background knowledge available to the best thinkers of the time.

The laypeople, however, may not have had a choice but to believe in some God. I mean, I doubt there was some simple argument they could understand (and believe) at the time. Now, with the miracles of technology, I think it's much easier.