Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit

English

Etymology

Coined by British evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins in 2006 as a play on words on the "tornado sweeping through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 747".

Noun

Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit (uncountable)

  1. A counterargument against the notion that the complexity of life and the universe necessitates the existence of a creator by pointing out that any creator is necessarily more complex than its creation.
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