Richard Dawkins on Postulating God
The Blind Watchmaker (New York: W.W. Norton, 1986), p. 316.
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 already 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!
From DNA to a Designer
+ The Existence of God

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