{"id":3502,"date":"2017-11-14T02:23:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T10:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2017-11-14T02:23:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T10:23:18","slug":"a-simple-question-about-complexity-and-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3502","title":{"rendered":"A Simple Question About Complexity (and Design)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question from Sean:<\/strong><br \/>\nHey, I&#8217;m wondering, what is your take on the complexity of the human body and the design of the universe?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Answer by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smartlx\">SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=73\">over here<\/a>, for starters.  My Great Big Arguments series serves as an extended FAQ for common approaches by believers, and this is one of those approaches.  Just one, mind, not two; it&#8217;s the same thinking applied on two different scales.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVery briefly, because it&#8217;s all in print already, the complexity in the human body came about very slowly through evolution, and any &#8220;design&#8221; in the universe is only apparent.  If you want to delve into something in particular, Sean, do a quick search to make sure we haven&#8217;t covered it lately and then put in a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question from Sean: Hey, I&#8217;m wondering, what is your take on the complexity of the human body and the design of the universe? Answer by SmartLX: It&#8217;s over here, for starters. My Great Big Arguments series serves as an extended FAQ for common approaches by believers, and this is one of those approaches. Just one, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3502\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Simple Question About Complexity (and Design)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-Uu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3504,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions\/3504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}