Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable …

Richard Dawkins
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Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's Pipe. Far from terminating the vicious regress, God aggravates it with a vengeance. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.146, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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