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A Theist’s Response to Roger Montague’s ‘Dawkins’ infinite Regress’ In my ‘Some Thoughts about Dawkins’ infinite Regress Argument’, I argued that the regress Dawkins has in mind, being generated by an equivocation on ‘thing’, is illegitimate and so fails to establish the impossibility of God’s existence. Roger Montague believes I am wrong; that the regress is indeed generated by Dawkins’ premise that the designer is more complex than the thing designed. Here, I explore what the outcome must be if Montague is right. The theist still has the upper hand, or so I Some Thoughts about Dawkins' infinite Regress Argument Richard Dawkins believes, as set out in his book, The God Delusion, that every designer has a designer that is more complex than itself. This allows him to argue against the existence of God, since He would need a designer that is even more complex, and that designer would need one, too: hence, an infinite regress of designers is posited and the existence of a first designer (i.e., God) is thereby ruled out. Dawkins in wrong to believe there exists such a regress. I try to show why.