Killing the Watchmaker (Origins)

by dhw, Thursday, June 30, 2011, 16:59 (4893 days ago) @ George Jelliss

GEORGE JELLISS: Video of Richard Dawkins responding to a question on Chance and Design:-http://www.atheismnetwork.org/2011/06/26/richard-dawkins-speaks-to-intelligent-design-p...-Just thought I'd drop by to see how things are here.
Nice to see dhw still singing the same old same old song!-Always a pleasure to welcome George back, though rather sad to see Dawkins singing the same old same old song, which George clearly approves of. For those not familiar with the Dawkins technique, it is always to fall back on the fact that Natural Selection is not governed by chance ... which few people would deny. This conveniently ignores the Number One question, which is how life, replication and the mechanisms for evolution came into being in the first place ... mechanisms without which there would be nothing for Nature to select from. Yes, my response is the same old song, because Dawkins and George never cease to trot out the same old fallacy ... that NS explains all.-In order to counter the usual diversionary strategy when this objection is raised, let me stress that I am not a creationist but an agnostic, and I regard the creationist argument as being just as irrational as the atheist. 
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