Richard Dawkin's big blunder
March 16, 2014 at 6:06 pm
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2014 at 6:10 pm by Rampant.A.I..)
(March 16, 2014 at 4:28 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:(March 14, 2014 at 8:30 am)Heywood Wrote: Warning! Let me preface by saying that as free thinkers, it is okay to question science and authorities in science
Correction: there are no authorities in science. There are experts
And they become experts by questioning, hypothesizing and testing theories, not enforcing a status quo. . . I'm not sure what he's on about.
(March 16, 2014 at 4:04 pm)Heywood Wrote:(March 16, 2014 at 11:30 am)Esquilax Wrote: That is, literally, what I said. :dodgy:
You said he meant there was no conscious force guiding it....which is quite a bit different then there is no component of an evolutionary system which looks ahead.
Which component "looks ahead"? The God of the Gaps component?
