Davison on Dawkins

I would like to ask John Davison if he would like to discuss his quote of Richard Dawkins:

quote:

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"Natural selection is arguably the most momentous idea ever to occur to a human mind, because it - alone as far as we know - explains the elegant illusion of design that pervades the living kingdoms and explains, in passing, us."

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ISCID url (2nd post on page)John would you care to dissect this sentence word for word?We may, for instance emphasize what elegance, if any, Richard found for the illusion OR a design which he (apparently) skiped as you called for instead with, either/or... we may find in talking on EvC that Dakwins passed for a extant but maybe not elegant reason.Let the fraying at the edge begin...John's 300 limited thread is at
EvC Forum: A Prescribed Evolutionary Hypothesisand his "hypothesis" on EvC is here:
http:///DataDropsite/APrescribedEvolutionaryHypothesis.htmlTo start...
John when you say, "quite the contrary"... do you have in mind a course of time or historical nexus of biology that you can denote Dakwins as to have been refering to with his word "momentous"?Edited by Brad McFall, : made ISCID link more direct

Did you intend a limited (you and John) discussion? Or more open?What forum do you want this in?

John just expressed no intention of following the Forum Guidelines over at the moderation thread and has been indefinitely suspended again, so there's no point in promoting this thread now, closing it down.

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