A leading non-philosopher talks to us

[bjorn]

Here is a link to a recent video of Dawkins at American Atheist 09 - www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/can-you-say-ad-hominem-politicization-and-wishful-speculation-dawkins-addresses-american-atheists-09/ from a site I don't quite endorse unreservedly.

Still it is sometimes rather intelligent designed

If nothing else, just read the comments and you'll get the gist of what he manages to say and how little he has learned. Incredible.

[humphreyclarke]

It nice to see that, when all is said and done, behind all the scientific rhetoric, it is basically a playground argument consisting of 'my levitating super-turtle is better than your levitating super-turtle' ( www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/002080.php ).

I think that if you endorse an infinite multiverse as an explanation for fine-tuning then that is a tacit admission that you are giving up the paradigm that complexity only arises by gradual steps from simplicity. A multiverse system is highly complex and most models feature everything that can possibly exist. Again that doesn't strike me as simple. Is it more complicated than God?. Probably.