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

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Sunday, September 27, 2009, 22:08 (5534 days ago) @ dhw

I've raised the question of Prof Dawkins' statement on the Hastings Humanists blog under the title "Is Dawkins Moving the Goalposts?" (a reference to another recent news story). It remains to see if it gets any response. -As a counter to dhw's quote from Darwin, here is another, from his "Recapitulation and Conclusion":-"These authors seem no more startled at a miraculous act of creation than at an ordinary birth. But do they really believe that at innumerable periods in the earth's history certain elemental atoms have been commanded suddenly to flash into living tissues? Do they believe that at each supposed act of creation one individual or many were produced? Were all the infinitely numerous kinds of animals and plants created as eggs or seed, or as fully grown? and in the case of mammals, were they created bearing the false marks of nourishment from the mother's womb? Although naturalists very properly demand a full explanation of every difficulty from those who believe in the mutability of species, on their own side they ignore the whole subject of the first appearance of species in what they consider reverent silence."

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GPJ