If you don't know Richard Dawkins, well, no matter really. Let's just say he's one of the superstars of the Church of Darwin, where things just pop up out of nowhere.
Conversely, the idea of an Intelligent Design-er is totally out of the question.
I had the opportunity to DVR "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" where Ben Stein posits several questions to Dr. Dawkins about how life started on earth. It's in this clip that Dawkins actually puts forth the idea that maybe really smart aliens (highly evolved aliens, of course) might have gotten the thing started by planting a self-replicating seed here on this planet.
Aliens...a higher intelligence...from a distant galaxy...evidently millions or billions of years ago...coming to this one planet for the purpose of...a biology experiment?
And they have trouble with us because we haven't found Noah's Ark, yet.
What are ya', nuts?
Watch.
Do you also think there's a Church of Gravity, you fucking uneducated moron.
ReplyDeleteHe's pointing out that ID just pushes the question of how it all started back a step. If there was some kind of intelligence behind the design of life on this planet, then what kickstarted that? His point (stated explicitly in other places where he talks about this) is that, however it started (here on Earth or indeed elsewhere), there has been evolution to bring the variety and complexity there is now.
ReplyDeletewow don't you just love the piercing reason of a wise liberal like "human ape."
ReplyDeletelove that movie; own it. want to read Berlinski's book (he is interviewed at length in Expelled) Devil's Delusion but it'll have to wait til I wade thru a few others . . .