(cont'd from last Friday's post)
If you are open to the idea that God exists, the obvious appearance of design in the natural world -- in honey bee hives and the intricate dance directing other bees to flowers -- makes sense. If you start with a commitment to believing God does not exist, you have to think up something to explain away the design of the natural world.
Even the famous crusader for atheism, Richard Dawkins, concedes that living animals appear to have been designed and wisely assembled. He definitely would not agree that the Creator placed an algorithm in the bee's brain to direct its behavior.
Committed atheistic scientists have to mentally fight the ubiquitous appearance of design in living systems. Francis Crick advises them: "Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved."
If they don't fight hard against their own common sense, they'll conclude that a Creator designed it.
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