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Saving Nature

Undeceptions with John Dickson

CHAPTER

The Blind Watchmaker

The selfish gene sort of bumped you away from atheism, agnosticism, towards theism. Richard Dawkins was constantly irritating me in every sense of the word to reject this thing I wasn't even interested in. And we now know that yes, of course it's untrue because genes did not assemble themselves in a primordial suit. We don't actually know how in naturalistic terms the earliest organisms constructed. That's the biggest hole in our knowledge,. But it was not through genes assembling themselves, finding a way to replicate and running the world.That's just not true.

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