{"id":8493,"date":"2011-01-17T17:07:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T09:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=8493"},"modified":"2011-06-28T11:42:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T03:42:13","slug":"super-complex-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/01\/super-complex-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Complex Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The universe is so complex,
\nthat for there to be a single creator,
\n‘he’ has to be super complex.<\/p>\n

But to explain the origin of the complex
\nwith someone super complex and unseen
\ndoesn’t explain anything.<\/p>\n

What arrived at is a super complex problem
\nof how the super complex originated,
\nor how ‘he’ is ‘unoriginated’.<\/p>\n

The universe is instead a super complex\u00a0interlinked web
\nof changing physical and psychical factors,
\nthat are interdependent on one another as they rise and fall.<\/p>\n

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From Richard Dawkins:<\/strong> Now, the difficult problem for any theory of biological design is to explain the massive statistical improbability of living things. Statistical improbability in the direction of good design. Complexity is another word for this. The standard creationist argument- there is only one, they all reduce to this one- takes off from statistical improbability. Living creatures are too complex to have come about by chance, therefore they must have had a designer.\u00a0This argument, of course, shoots itself in the foot- any designer capable of designing something really complex has to be even more complex himself. And that\u2019s before we even start on the other things He\u2019s expected to do, like forgive sins, bless marriages, listen to prayers, favor our side in a war, disapprove of our sex lives, and so on.<\/p>\n

Complexity is the problem that any theory of biology has to solve. And you can\u2019t solve it by postulating an agent that is even more complex thereby simply compounding the problem.\u00a0Darwinian natural selection is so stunningly elegant because it solves the problem of explaining complexity in terms of nothing but simplicity. Essentially it does it by providing a smooth ramp of gradual step by step increment. But here I only want to make the point that the elegance of Darwinism is corrosive to religion [which subscribes to existence of a creator] precisely because it is so elegant. So parsimonious. So powerful. So economically powerful. It has the sinewy economy of a beautiful suspension bridge. The \u201cGod theory\u201d is not just a bad theory, it turns out to be in principle incapable of doing the job required of it.<\/p>\n

Related Article:<\/strong>
\nBuddhist Review of ‘The God Delusion’
\nhttp:\/\/moonpointer.com\/index.php?itemid=1738<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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