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What is simplicity and complexity?  One can define this to some degree as the amount of text (number of bytes) needed to express a concept.  But the amount of text depends on the language used, and the concepts embedded in the language.  So in effect, something is simple if it is easily expressed in common human concepts and is complex if the opposite.  Human concepts are the product of evolution, so we have those concepts most useful for hunting deer and avoiding lions.  The further we move from our common environment, the less well our concepts work.  This is why we have trouble with quantum mechanics and black holes.

The assumption about God is that God provides uniform rules for all of universe including what is far removed from human experience.  So this makes God very complex from a human perspective.

But the reason one cannot axiomatize nature is different.  Reality is not a mathematical system, not a product of the human mind.  Axioms are a product of the human mind.  So reality/nature cannot be axiomatized.