From: Dean"@gmail.com   
      
   When Richard Dawkins and Francis Crick make statements such as these:   
   Dawkins - "Biology is the study of complicated things that give the   
   appearance of having been designed for a purpose"   
   Dawkins pg 1, 1996   
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   “We may say that a living body or organ is well designed if it has   
   attributes that an intelligent and knowledgeable engineer might have   
   built into it in order to achieve some sensible purpose… any engineer   
   can recognize an object that has been designed, even poorly designed,   
   for a purpose, and he can usually work out what that purpose is just by   
   looking at the structure of the object.”   
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   Dawkins tries to explain away the observation of design this way:   
     “Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not   
   see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the   
   living results of natural selection overwhelmingly impress us with the   
   illusion of design and planning.”   
   Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, 1996, p. 21.   
      
   Crick - "Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was   
   not designed, but rather evolved".   
   Francis Crick What Mad Pursuit (1990), 138.   
      
   If these observations are taken at face value, then a person without   
   an predisposed mindset against actual design would follow the   
   evidence where ever it leads. The first principle of the scientific   
   method is observation, then offer hypothesis explaining the observation   
   - not to offer hypothesis for the express purpose of explaining away the   
   observation - which is contrary to science.   
      
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