"Steve Dirickson" <[log in to unmask]> writes:

> Completely bogus. Evolution describes a mechanism that seems to fit
> the observed data pretty well. It says nothing about the origin of
> that mechanism, or the reason for its existence. And it certainly says
> nothing about disallowing the existence of a Creator or about a lack
> of purpose, or ethics, or morality. I think you're confusing the
> principles of evolutionary science with the personal opinions of some
> of the rabid atheistic dogmatists who happen to subscribe to that
> science.

Richard Dawkins doesn't agree.  See:
http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/dawkins_18_3.html

Speaking of Paley's argument that the intricate design of the creation
required a creator:

"So ran Paley's argument, and it is an argument that nearly all thoughtful
and sensitive people discover for themselves at some stage in their
childhood. Throughout most of history it must have seemed utterly
convincing, self-evidently true. And yet, as the result of one of the most
astonishing intellectual revolutions in history, we now know that it is
wrong, or at least superfluous. We now know that the order and apparent
purposefulness of the living world has come about through an entirely
different process, a process that works without the need for any designer
and one that is a consequence of basically very simple laws of physics. This
is the process of evolution by natural selection, discovered by Charles
Darwin and, independently, by Alfred Russel Wallace."


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