(December 14, 2008 at 12:44 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote:(December 13, 2008 at 8:41 pm)Daystar Wrote:Is it just me or have you completely missed the point that I was trying to make by responding to what you said - about you thinking that Darwin believed in a creator?(December 13, 2008 at 8:31 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: I'm very familiar of that. That was a different version of Origin. And this is a very common thing that creationists quote to atheists. The original didn't have 'the creator' in it. It was added afterwards for the reason; - as Dawkins puts it: "presumably as a sop to the religious lobby. "
And the whole deathbed conversion of Darwin is a complete myth in case you start on that.
This is one of the reasons Dawkins says he is going to have a tape recorder at his bed when his time comes.
That is funny! I like to think of Dawkins as a sort of living Darwin. A new Darwin. TV Evangelists for the Atheist.
The quote I gave was from a mentor's edition of the original Origin Of Species. Charles Darwin said it himself. You say that Richard Dawkins pointed out that he tacked that on to appease the Xian and I say he was a putz if he did.
I don't care if he believed in the creator or not I only quoted it to annoy you.