shokwave comments on Expecting Short Inferential Distances - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shokwave 01 August 2011 02:06:31AM 5 points [-]

I personally feel that "God did it" is a simpler explanation than "Amino acids magically combined via processes we don't understand and haven't been able to duplicate, creating life essentially ex nihilo"

Is "God did it" a simpler explanation than "amino acids combined via complex and unlikely processes we understand and can even replicate crudely, creating life from a perhaps murky but essentially non-magical source"?

What is your gut reaction?

Comment author: Arandur 01 August 2011 02:14:57AM 2 points [-]

When isolated in this manner, my gut reaction is "no".