Ignorant Kansans
• Skeptics & Atheists
The distinguished Harvard geneticist Richard Lewontin is widely quoted as saying that organisms “appear to have been carefully and artfully designed”. Again, this was a rhetorical preliminary to explaining how the powerful illusion of design actually comes about by natural selection. The isolated quotation strips out the implied emphasis on “appear to”, leaving exactly what a simple-mindedly pious audience — in Kansas, for instance — wants to hear.
Richard Dawkins: Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant
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Posted by: the spook | June 29, 2005 4:24 AM