Darwinism and the Elimination of God?
In the article, Has Science Eliminated God?, the author Mcgrath brings up a point from one of Dawkins books. In River out of Eden by Richard Dawkins, the professor of Oxford uses the following quote to get his point across, 'The universe we observe had precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference” (Darwin 133).
To sum up this article, the author brings up the apparent design of certain intricate structures within the human body, such as the human eye, to say that some things cannot be explained by natural forces, “which obliges us to invoke a divine creator” (McGrath 118). However, Dawkins makes the point that complex things have changed over an extremely large amount of time. Dawkins brings up the point in his book, Climbing Mountain Possible, that from one point may seem impossible but from another is completely attainable by a simple step by step process. Dawkins argues that through the theory of evolution, there is no space or reason for God. The argument of very complex mechanisms having to be derived from a supernatural source is offset completely by the works of Darwin. Dawkins shows his very anti-religious ideas and often has no problem voicing a better world without it.
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