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This part, however, shocks me: "The uber-atheist neo-Darwinian Dick Dawkins also acknowledges that neo-Darwimism inexorably engenders atheism, but he looks rather daft when he responds to Ben that space aliens may have started/designed life on earth..." Sarcasm on Dawkins part?
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After the space alien comments Stein asks how certain he was that there is no ultimate Creator, and Dawkins said 99% and then Stein asks, in his deadpan way, how he determined that and that maybe the odds were 98% or maybe 49%. Can’t remember exactly what Dawkins mumbled in response, but by then the damage was done.
Several weeks ago Dawkins saw an early screening of the flick and how foolish he looked, apparently had regrets, and has attempted to distance himself from the space aliens scenario saying he doesn’t really believe his own science fiction thought experiment; and also that he doesn’t think Crick believed it either back when Crick proposed that the earth could have been seeded by aliens. Yeah, well, maybe someday he’ll look back on his blind faith in neo-Darwinism’s empty natural selection language and say something similar.