So here’s my question: creationists (a subset of Fundamentalist Christians) claim that life on earth is too “irreducibly complex” to have arisen spontaneously, without an “intelligent designer,” so how do they explain the existence of God, who is, presumably, infinitely more “complex” than any life on earth? Was God designed by a yet more “intelligent” supernatural creator? “Oh, no,” creationists argue, “God is ETERNAL — He has ALWAYS existed — He was never born and He will never die.” By doing so, they confound their own argument merely to suit their desired outcome: they see an amazingly complex world and argue that such complexity MUST have a creator, but when they see an infinitely MORE complex God, they suddenly reverse themselves and say that such complexity must NOT have a creator. So, which is it? Does “irreducible complexity” demand the existence of a creator, or doesn’t it? More to the point: what sense is there in claiming that “irreducible complexity” demands the existence of a creator at some times, but not at others?
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