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The difference between the evidence from the design and the evidence from the complexity

שו”תCategory: faithThe difference between the evidence from the design and the evidence from the complexity
asked 2 years ago

Hello Rabbi Michi,
In your book “God Plays Dice,” Chapter 3, you insist that evidence from design has a certain addition over evidence from complexity, in that design is a visible “divine fingerprint,” unlike complexity, which only proves that someone who put it together existed.
Can you explain a little more what the difference is?
Just as planning is a “fingerprint” of the planner, so it can be said that complexity is a “fingerprint of the component.”
Or alternatively:
Just as complexity only shows that there is a component, so design only shows that there was someone who designed it all.

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מיכי Staff answered 2 years ago

I don’t even remember that comment. The difference is insignificant. Design indicates a trend of someone who created the thing and complexity is just a statistic.

מאיר replied 2 years ago

This is found on page 119, under the heading “Two Types of Physico-Theological Arguments”

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