All this is based on the assumption that GOD is indeed something “complex.” Before Dawkins, many philosophers and theologians argued that GOD is not complex at all, but merely the purpose of the raids until any definition could define it.
As noted by the philosopher (atheist) Daniel Hume, this is an old and unfounded argument that a philosophy student with good talent can refute. For an explanation to be successful, there is no need for an explanatory answer.
I would like you to think of GOD here as a particle or entity but NOT a religious one, just as I have been assuming throughout this entire book.
Similarly, suppose a technological object is found on Mars. In that case, it will be immediately apparent that an intelligent entity designed it, even if we have never seen how such an item is made.
There are some reviews on this argument. The philosopher David Hume argued that we cannot make an analogy between clocks and other familiar works of art and the universe and living beings, since we know that clocks are man-made.
This evidence about GOD seems intuitive, so it occupies a central place in discussions about GOD’s existence. It is based not only on our intuitions, which identify the designer’s imprint in complex works but also on experience.
While the cosmological argument is based on the very existence of the universe, the argument from design (also called the complexity argument, or the physio-theological argument) is based on certain features of the universe or parts of it and the high level of complexity.
Belief in GOD is like belief in gravity: each adds to human knowledge by rational inquiry, which is why rational inquiry is the means of discovering the existence of GOD.
Similarly, the existence of the electromagnetic force, the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force, as well as the force from particles that cannot be directly observed, are also determined.
Aristotle called it universal will. We call it individual will when it refers to ourselves or GOD’s will when we are looking at the bigger picture.
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