A simple challenge for atheists

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Why would you say that all of the man-made things in New York city are more complex? We know precisely how everything works.

The latter point is not a measure of complexity; human knowledge of a given thing is not the arbiter of the nature of that thing. If you present to me a box with a light on it, and the light works via a simple battery inside the box, but I don't know that, that doesn't mean that New York is less complex than what's inside the box. It just means that I don't know how the box works.

Why are you so attached to the argument from ignorance?

Our understanding of the bacteria is very much incomplete.

Yours more than most. But your ignorance of how bacteria work- and more broadly your ignorance as to how science works, as every field of study is incomplete, or else it would stop- is not an excuse for god belief.

Dawkin's himself has acknowledged that there is not enough time in the Universe for it to have self assembled, blind mutation after blind mutation.

Okay, so first of all, still don't care; Dawkins being wrong about something carries no weight with me.

That said, I highly doubt he actually said this; it's more likely you're clinging to a creationist quote mine, than that you're accurately representing the position of Dawkins, especially when we actually know how bacteria evolved.