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The hypothesis you refer to as God, though not
disprovable by logic alone, is unnecessary for the following reason.
If you assume that the universe can be explained as the creation of an entity
known as God, he must obviously be of a higher degree of organisation than his
product. Thus you have more than doubled the size of the original problem, and
have taken the first step on a diverging infinite regress. William of Ockham
pointed out as recently as your fourteenth century that entities should not
be multiplied unnecessarily. I cannot therefore understand why this debate continues.
- Sir Arthur C. Clarke (message from the alien spaceprobe Starglider), The Fountains
of Paradise
