Richard Dawkins Admits Life Was Intelligently Designed

While we're on the topic of Darwin, there's a good piece in the February issue of National Geographic.

Wow! Durandal, like so many other believers, has selectively censored and misrepresented the clip he posted, in a lame and ridiculous attempt at arguing something. If you watch the clip you see Ben Stein pressing the question "who" or "how" did the universe come to be. Once Dawkins explains that nobody knows, and Stein seems to accept this, Stein then asks this question:

"What do you think is the possibility that intelligent design might turn out to be, uhm, the answer to some issues of genetics or of evolution?"

This is not a question about God, or about the truth of christian versions of Intelligent Design. It's a question about how you might construe a theory about intelligent creatures being responsible for genes found on Earth. That is the question Dawkins answers.

So Dawkins answers the question honestly. He says that if you really want to believe in some sort of Intelligent Design theory, then it could possibly take the form of a theory about aliens "who have already evolved through a Darwinian process", placing genetic material on Earth. He denies the probability of God, as he always does, and he points out that Intelligent Design would not be the answer to the most obvious question still remaining, namely "Who created the aliens?"

Nowhere in his answer does Dawkins claim that Intelligent design is highly probable. Furthermore, his answer is most obviously NOT (to anyone who takes the time to listen to it) presenting a theory of Intelligent Design that is even remotely similar to the Intelligent Design theory that believers support.

What Durandal has clearly missed in Dawkins answer is that he is openly making fun of Intelligent Design theory. He is reducing Intelligent Design theory to both an absurdity, and a theory that begs the question of the origins of life.

But, of course, anyone who has studied theology seriously knows that Intelligent Design has been debunked time and time again throughout the ages. It is not a modern theory. It was proposed in the Middle Ages by Aquinas.

Maybe the problem with believers is that they're often not used to listening to the details. I suppose that comes about by being told the answers to every interesting question that might come up in life, before they get a chance to think about them openly and honestly. My advice: step into the light and question your beliefs for once...with an open mind.

It says that he has faith, and his faith differs from the Christians.

I dont think you can call it faith....

"Richard Dawkins Admits Life Was Intelligently Designed"

No. He didn't.

Akhenaten loves it when he witnesses Christans embracing lying.

He is also amused to see their theories, stances and interpretations 'evolve' over time, dictated by the envronment they exist in, in order to survive. If the Church didn't 'evolve' in order to adapt to the changing environment it would be extinct.

Can anyone here please point me to one single example of anything in the universe that does not evolve? Everything 'evolves' and there is nothing that came from nothing.