DAVE quotes
<< "The complexity of life requires an explanation."
- Dan Barker >>
DAR
And what did he say in the very next sentence Dave? Provide the
context for this quote. What is the source?
My guess for what he goes on to say?
"And evolution provides this explanation."
Dawkins takes a chapter or two to say this in the Blind Watchmaker.
I have loaned out my copy of Dan Barker's book but I'll have it soon.
cheers,
Darrel
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"The great beauty of Darwin's theory of evolution is that it
explains how complex, difficult to understand things could
have arisen step by plausible step, from simple, easy to
understand beginnings. We start our explanation from
almost
infinitely simple beginnings: pure hydrogen and a huge
amount of energy. Our scientific, Darwinian explanations
carry us through a series of well-understood gradual steps
to all the spectacular beauty and complexity of life.
The alternative hypothesis, that it was all started by a
supernatural creator, is not only superfluous, it is also
highly improbable. It falls foul of the very argument that
was originally put forward in its favour. This is because
any God worthy of the name must have been a being of
colossal intelligence, a supermind, an entity of extremely
low probability--a very improbable being indeed.
Even if the postulation of such an entity explained anything
(and we don't need it to), it still wouldn't help because it
raises a bigger mystery than it solves."
--Richard Dawkins
>From the _New Humanist_, the Journal of the Rationalist
Press Association, Vol 107 No 2