Universal Intelligence (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 13:08 (5539 days ago) @ dhw

dhw wrote: "I attacked Dawkins' statement that "Evolution is the creator of life". In response you have quoted his thesis that life starts with "primeval simplicity and fosters, by slow, explicable degrees, the emergence of complexity." That is not the point at issue. He claims in the same article, which you recommended: "We know, as certainly as we know anything in science, that [Darwinian evolution] is the process that has generated life on our own planet." I object to a renowned scientist claiming that evolution created/generated life. I am not, as you put it, claiming the "improbability or impossibility" of the first appearance of a replicating molecule, and you know perfectly well that I'm not. I too believe that it happened. But it was not produced by Darwinian evolution. Darwinian evolution had nothing to work on until there was already life. That is what makes Dawkins' statement absurd." -I agree that Dawkins here is redefining "Darwinian evolution" to include abiogenesis. But if you object to this why don't you do so directly to Dawkins' face, by writing to him or posting a comment on his forum?

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GPJ