What's the olde English saying dawkins? 'In for a penny, in for a pound'? As long as we've completely hijacked coffeee's thread, I'm really glad you pointed that out. As usual, you have very little, if nothing at all, to say concerning the validity or accuracy of the contents of the quote... only that the author has the audacity, or in your belief system, the stupidity, to deduce an alternative thought process to 'classic', i.e., Darwinian evolution. (And yes, I've read Darwin's Second edition, in it's entirety).
I greatly appreciate an article writtent by Phillip E. Johnson, Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law, emeritus School of Law, University of California, Berkeley: "The problem with scientific naturalism as a worldview is that it takes a sound methodological premise of natural science and transforms it into a dogmatic? statement about the nature of the universe. Science is committed by definition to empiricism, by which I mean that scientists seek to find truth by observation, experiment, and calculation rather than by studying sacred books or achieving mystical states of mind. It may well be, however, that there are certain questions-important questions, ones to which we desperately want to know the answers-that cannot be answered by the methods available to our science. These may include not only broad philosophical issues such as whether the universe has a purpose, but also questions we have become accustomed to think of as empirical, such as how life first began or how complex biological systems were put together.
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