Richard Dawkin's big blunder

[Mudhammam]

Nonsense. In theory it could be as "simple" and unconscious that under specific conditions light causes different atoms to self-organize into molecules and given the pressures of the surrounding environment, they survive only by copying themselves, with the help of symbiosis. There's no reason, on the Darwinian account, or any for that matter, to invoke anthropomorphic designers. Nature does the trick well enough on "her" own using genes.

I patiently await your demonstration of what you claim could in theory be simple. Until then I gotta go with what I observe. I observe that in order to replicate a Darwinian like evolutionary system, selection mechanisms need to be contrived and judgments need to be made on what is and isn't beneficial.

Have you ever read a book on evolution? Or specifically, genetics? I'm shocked that you're unaware of the basic process by which nature selects. Your questions and subsequent presumptions about conscious judgments seem to run more along the lines of "why" or personal incredulity ("why do people have five digits on each hand instead of eight? Ah, it must have been an intelligent judgement that five is better!")

---

The only requirements you need for a "fitness paradigm" to emerge are self-replicators that are at the mercy of limited resources. Not exactly the type of design you'd expect from an intelligent engineer.