Why not every scientist worships at Darwin’s feet
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The leading atheist Richard Dawkins, speaking of this God delusion, as he calls it, offers a succinct summary of Darwin’s theory. “Given sufficient time, the non-random survival of hereditary entities … will generate complexity, diversity, beauty, and an illusion of design so persuasive that it is almost impossible to distinguish from deliberate intelligent design.” The power of evolution to simulate the illusion of design, says Dawkins, is threatening to what he suggestively calls a “certain kind of mind”. Mostly he means unscientific, naive or stupid. –
The Syndey Morning Herald reports But things aren’t so simple. Scattered among the world’s top
scientists are those who do believe in a conscious intention behind
nature’s processes. I think of people such as Francis Collins,
director of the Human Genome Project, and Professor Bill Phillips,
winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997. The presence of such
people poses awkward questions for the view that evolutionary
theory and a sophisticated scientific brain lead inexorably towards
atheism. There must be more to the so-called “science versus God”
story than this.