When examined carefully, scientific accounts of natural processes are never really about order emerging from chaos, or form emerging from mere formlessness. On the contrary, they are always about the unfolding of an order that was already implicit in the nature of things, althought often in a secret of hidden way. When we see situations that appear to be haphazard, or things that appear amorphous, automatically or spontaneously arranging themselves into orderly patterns, what we find in every case is that what appeared to be haphazard actually had a great deal of order built into it...What (Richard) Dawkins does not seem to appreciate is that his blind watchmaker is something even more remarkable than Paleys watches. Paley finds a watch and asks how such a thing could have come there by chance. Dawkins finds an immense automated factory that blindly constructs watches, and feels that he has completely answered Paleys point. But that is absurd. How can a factory that makes watches be less in need of explanation that the watches themselves? Stephen Barr from Modern Physics and Ancient Faith
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:54:02 +0000
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