It is more reasonable....

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And you think this because? You think you are right and I am wrong? It's foolish of me? I don't gamble.

You are gambling by believing in God.

Doktor S wrote:

It is more reasonable to believe there is a man hiding in the bushes outside your house than to believe in a deity
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Can't argue with the facts, it would be fun to try though, so I might on that basis, if you don't mind? I might start by asking you if a watch implies a watch maker.

Alas I will be destroyed, unless I make an argument based on faith, not only of which I don't have, but is indefensible if I adhere to your initial rational premise. You would have to word your opening gambit in more ambiguous terms in order for me to perhaps have a counter argument.

The argument from analogy:

A watch implies a watchmaker, say the creationists. If you were to find a beautifully intricate watch in the desert, far from habitation, you would be sure that it had been fashioned by human hands and somehow left it there. It would pass the bounds of credibility that it had simply formed, spontaneously, from the sands of the desert.

By analogy, then, if you consider humanity, life, Earth, and the universe, all infinitely more intricate than a watch, you can believe far less easily that it "just happened." It, too, like the watch, must have been fashioned, but by more-than-human hands?-in short by a divine Creator.

This argument seems unanswerable, and it has been used (even though not often explicitly expressed) ever since the dawn of consciousness. To have explained to prescientific human beings that the wind and the rain and the sun follow the laws of nature and do so blindly and without a guiding would have been utterly unconvincing to them. In fact, it might have well gotten you stoned to death as a blasphemer.

There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance only implies ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

In short, the complexity of the universe?-and one's inability to explain it in full?-is not in itself an argument for a Creator.

...and you are gambling by not.