Indeed.
However, appeals to the apparent moral failures of a creator strike me as being less powerful than simply pointing out that the existence of a non-material and non-temporal living thing is incomprehensible.
I can tolerate people believing in fairies or unicorns - I can imagine a world in which winged homunculi or horned horses exist. It's not this world, but there's nothing incoherent about it. However, a world in which supernatural beings exist simply doesn't make sense.
(I was impressed by Jonathan Miller's point that he doesn't call himself an atheist because theism seems to him to be too absurd to waste time opposing...)
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 28 Jan 2009, 13:21,
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Yes, indeed
The most convincing argument, for me, is that to 'create' the staggering amount of complexity in the Universe you must concede that the Creator him/her self must be even more staggeringly complex.
Which is impossible, of course, as complexity doesn't just appear, it's the product of evolution! So who created the Creator? And so on, and so on...
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applehead herp derp, Wed 28 Jan 2009, 13:30,
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