If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding evolution, that deity must have been vastly complex in the first place. The creationist, whether a naive Bible-thumper or an educated bishop, simply postulates an already existing being of prodigious intelligence and complexity. If we are going to allow ourselves the luxury of postulating organized complexity without offering an explanation, we might as well make a job of it and simply postulate the existence of life as we know it!


Chapter 11 Doomed Rivals (p. 316) - The Blind Watchmaker (1986)

Richard Dawkins Quotes

If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding evolution,...

If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding evolution,...

If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding evolution,...

If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding evolution,...