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    Challenges→Omni-theism cannot claim the hidden simplicity of the universe as supporting evidence

    A simple God explains observed complexity whether or not simpler mediate physical causes also explain that complexity

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    For example, even if omni-theism is supported by the general fact that the universe is complex, one should not ignore the more specific fact, discovered by scientists, that underlying this complexity at the level at which we experience the universe, is a much simpler early universe from which this complexity arose, and also a much simpler contemporary universe at the micro-level, one consisting of a relatively small number of different kinds of particles all of which exist in one of a relatively

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