English Explanatory Dictionary

Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  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.

Word forms

Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit the Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit

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".

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