Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,..
Romans 1:22
"The New Scientist cover story from August 3-9, 2019, reads, “Reality: The Greatest Illusion of All.” It is subtitled, “How Evolution has Blinded us to the Truth About the World.” I have often come across this theme in my reading. It usually goes like this:
‘The world, especially all forms of life, look very much like they were designed, but this is an illusion because we know that all life and the universe itself evolved.’
Richard Dawkins’ adds to the confusion with this well-known quote from his book The Blind Watchmaker: “Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.” He quickly explains in this passage that he thinks design is an illusion.
“Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, [and] has no purpose in view,” he preaches.
This presents a conundrum. How can Dawkins know the difference between reality and illusion? If his reality is an illusion produced by evolution, then he cannot step out of that reality to judge that it is an illusion. The illusion would be his reality."
CEH
Romans 1:22
"The New Scientist cover story from August 3-9, 2019, reads, “Reality: The Greatest Illusion of All.” It is subtitled, “How Evolution has Blinded us to the Truth About the World.” I have often come across this theme in my reading. It usually goes like this:
‘The world, especially all forms of life, look very much like they were designed, but this is an illusion because we know that all life and the universe itself evolved.’
Richard Dawkins’ adds to the confusion with this well-known quote from his book The Blind Watchmaker: “Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.” He quickly explains in this passage that he thinks design is an illusion.
“Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, [and] has no purpose in view,” he preaches.
This presents a conundrum. How can Dawkins know the difference between reality and illusion? If his reality is an illusion produced by evolution, then he cannot step out of that reality to judge that it is an illusion. The illusion would be his reality."
CEH