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RICHARD DAWKINS - The Selfish Gene & The God Delusion: Understanding Nature, Humanity & Consciousness

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Is There a Creator View?

It's very tempting when you see a beautiful mechanism like an eye which looks like a camera to think of that as being designed. We are surrounded by machines that are made for our benefit by things not just machines but everything we look at all these cameras around here and they're obviously made by somebody there's no question about it. It takes a great leap of brilliance actually with Charles Darwin had to recognize the power of selection in domestication. I've often been puzzled why it took so long for Darwin to arrive on the scene because actually his idea is remarkably simple. He didn't require a lot of mathematics and a lot of sophisticated thinking but 200 years after Newton and Newton after what Newton did was

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