(January 10, 2016 at 12:25 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(January 9, 2016 at 7:40 pm)AAA Wrote: It isn't without evidence. Did you read the last response where I listed many intricate systems? Can you honestly tell me that it doesn't at least give the appearance of design? Even Richard Dawkins acknowledges that life gives the appearance of being designed for a purpose. He just thinks that this is an illusion. It is not irrational or an assertion to say that the appearance of design may be due to the fact that it was designed. Why do I have to do mental gymnastics to avoid the obvious conclusion to try to find some other answer that may or may not exist?
It becomes an irrational assertion when you hold fast to it despite strong evidence to the contrary, as in evolution. Dawkins doesn't just "think" it is an illusion of design. He used his critical thinking skills and available scientific evidence to come to the most reasonable conclusion.
Quite apart from which, Prof Dawkins goes on to say that the appearance of being designed for a purpose is deceptive, because we know the mechanisms by which the organisms came about naturally. I actually posted a video of him expanding on this very thing about a fortnight ago. AAA is basically quotemining at this point.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'