However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by inv…

Richard Dawkins
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However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747 ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747 ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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