enormous improbability, how could one even calculate accurately which was more probable? If on Dawkins’ reckoning God is at least as probable as the sudden waving of a marble statue, then according to his own reasoning God causing the miraculous waving of the Virgin Mary statue is at least as probable as random atomic jostling. We also might well ask at this point what it means to say that the existence of God is probable. Dawkins gives only this thin explanation: “reason alone could not propel one
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