On the Argument from Degree: "That's an argument? You might as well say, people vary in smelliness but we can make the comparison only by reference to a perfect maximum of conceivable smelliness. Therefore there must exist a pre-eminently peerless stinker, and we call him God. Or substitute any dimension of comparison you like, and derive an equivalently fatuous conclusion."


The God Delusion (2006)

Richard Dawkins Quotes

On the Argument from Degree: That's an argument? You might as well say, people vary in smelliness but we can make the comparison only by reference to ...

On the Argument from Degree: That's an argument? You might as well say, people vary in smelliness but we can make the comparison only by reference to ...

On the Argument from Degree: That's an argument? You might as well say, people vary in smelliness but we can make the comparison only by reference to ...

On the Argument from Degree: That's an argument? You might as well say, people vary in smelliness but we can make the comparison only by reference to ...