Tag: Richard Dawkins
Your “Botched Body”: Bad Design or Bad Logic?
Whenever a complex system of systems works at all, it seems counterproductive to attempt a “bad design” argument.
Pre-Adaptation: In Evolutionary Explanations, Too Much Serendipity
“The bombardier beetle’s ancestors simply pressed into different service chemicals that already happened to be lying around. That’s often how evolution works.”
Is the Human Eye Really Evidence Against Intelligent Design?
Vertebrate eyes work reasonably well, Richard Dawkins conceded, but “it is the principle of the thing that would offend any tidy-minded engineer!”
Contradicting Darwinian Gradualism, Earliest Animals Show Complex Parental Behavior
Darwin himself realized that any kind of significant saltational change would imply a miracle-like intelligent intervention.
Adam and the Genome and Naïve Theology
It’s ironic to find Dietrich Bonhoeffer cited by Dennis Venema.