>Dave, would you please be kind enough to give the reference for it.
>Thanks, Ralph
>>
>>"The complexity of life requires an explanation."
>> - Dan Barker
>
>(DAVE 4/15) Ralph: Sure (actually, it's odd - I often include quotes but
>this is the first quote I have been asked for the reference for - twice
>actually - wonder why)
>Rhonda Jockisch sent me "Losing Faith in Faith" by Barker (thanks Rhonda)
>some time ago, and I have often referred to it. Actually, I like the book.
>I don't agree with most of it, but I like the way it is presented - fair,
>easy to understand, and fairly thorough.
>Page 134 under the section "Does the Complexity of Life Require a Designer?"
RALPH NIELSEN
Thanks, Dave. What you have done with Dan Barker's quotation is what many
fundamentalists do with quotations. They quote them out of context, they
quote only half of them in order to make it appear that the persons quoted
support their arguments, or they do both. In either case they are
committing an act of deliberate deception. How typically Christian!
Here is the entire quotation:
The complexity of life requires an *explanation.* Darwin's theory of
evolution, with cumulative nonrandom natural selection *designing* for
billions of years, has provided the explanation.
Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith, p. 134.
Good reading, Ralph