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Richard Dawkins

By Stuart Buck

A recent column by Richard Dawkins, presenting what purport to be arguments against the existence of God: Entities capable of designing anything, whether they be human engineers or interstellar aliens, must be complex -- and therefore, statistically improbable.But says who? How does Dawkins purport to know that any entity that could be deemed "God" is both "complex" and "statistically improbable"? Elsewhere, Dawkins has written derisively of the "argument from personal incredulity," i.e., the argument that because one is personally incredulous that evolution could have done this or that, therefore evolution didn't do it. Fair enough. But here, Dawkins is offering his own argument from personal incredulity here -- he says that God is "statistically improbable," but given that the statistics cannot be measured here, Dawkins is saying nothing other than that he is personally incredulous when he thinks about the possibility of God...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on April 22, 2008 (boomark / email).