Richard Dawkin's big blunder

[Heywood]

Which component "looks ahead"? The God of the Gaps component?

Good question.

If you read this entire thread, you will see a post of mine where I respond to Alex regarding targets and selection criterion. In it I substitute Dawkins' "methinks" sentence for a simpler one. I give an example of a selection criterion that would select for the exact sentence "I am". If you look at that selection criterion you will see that it is really just a description of the target.

In a sense the fitness paradigm is just a description or blue print which evolution follows to build a particular product.

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I agree with you that both processes are guided and are natural. Where I disagree is in the assertion that both processes are blind.

An example showing evolutions "blindness" is our throat, which we use to both swallow and breathe through.

Off topic but I will respond anyways.

You could have a second orifice for breathing, like a dolphin....but something could still get lodged in that orifice causing you to choke anyways. On top of that a second orifice is just another avenue for infectious agents to enter the body. I always thought that the human throat was a horrible example used by atheists to describe what constitutes bad design.