Even the most vociferous and vehement ID opponents (e.g., Richard Dawkins) admit that design in nature appears to be self-evident. Why then, the heroic efforts to explain design away, with such silliness as random variation and natural selection providing the engine that produced highly sophisticated biological software and information-processing systems?
I remain completely bewildered by the fact that intelligent, educated people cannot recognize this obvious act of denial and desperation.
Mr. Dodgen's issue with evolutionary science doesn't seem to be that its conclusions are wrong; rather, he seems to take issue with the fact that Dawkins and others like him are even trying to come up with an explanation for the origin of life that doesn't involve God when design seems intuitively obvious.
Putting aside the obvious objections regarding his all-too-quick dismissal of evolutionary explanations of apparent design, the most disturbing thing here is the fact that if it looks like God did something, we shouldn't even look for disconfirmatory evidence - we should just say "well, chalk another one up for God" and move on! Somehow I don't think science would have gotten very far if it had stuck to that philosophy from the start. Don't make me drag out Galileo here, Gil.
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