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Who designed the designer?

שו”תWho designed the designer?
asked 7 years ago

Hello, Your Honor!
How can we deal with Dawkins’ claim: “Who designed the designer”? By making God a complex thing and therefore assuming that He has His own creator?

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מיכי Staff answered 7 years ago

See third author. The assumption that a complex thing is purified by a creator applies only to objects of the kind we know that require a cause outside of them. Without it, you reach an infinite regress.

איתי replied 7 years ago

The Rabbi proposed the idea of primacy - and this fits me with the assumption that there is no reason outside of Him. But regarding the assumption that God is complex and unknown, I don't understand. Is the whole reason for this claim by Dawkins that God is material and therefore there is no fundamental difference between us and God in the end?
And also, is it possible to propose the assumption that perhaps God, within the concept of perfection, also oversees the imperfection (complexity)?

מיכי Staff replied 7 years ago

As I wrote, without making a difference in the matter of the formation of complexity, you fall into an infinite regression. Just as it is the cause of itself, it is the cause of complexity itself.

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