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   "R. Dean" <"R. Dean"@gmail.com> wrote:   
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   >  > 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.   
      
   Dawkins described American liberalism.   
      
   >  > 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.   
      
   Yes, we admire the acumen of liberal democrats in Detroit,   
   Baltimore, Oakland, Memphis, Houston, New Orleans, St Louis,   
   Washington DC, Watts.   
      
   >  > Crick - "Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see   
   >  > was not designed, but rather evolved".   
   >  > Francis Crick What Mad Pursuit (1990), 138.   
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   >  > 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 - a practice contrary to science.   
      
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