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> DAVID:  […] [i]fine-tuned control of a dangerous radical (electron on the loose but really not). Not by chance from hunt and peck. There must be a designer. If Darwin had known these facts, his book would not be written in the same way. Darwinism must be preserved to support atheism.[/i]
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> Of course his book would have been different, but I wish you wouldn’t lump all his ideas together, as if they are all invalid. Darwin’s theory deals with Chapter Two of life, not with the origin – and that means not with the origin of the mechanisms that enable life, reproduction and evolution. I suspect that being an agnostic, he would have acknowledged all your arguments for design. None of them contradict the theory of common descent or of natural selection as the process that determines which organs and organisms survive. Darwinism does not support atheism. It is neutral. Not even the theory of random mutations and gradualism, which you and I both reject, supports atheism! That was the astonishing discovery I made when I was a schoolboy, and it still astonishes me that so many highly educated people think of it as atheistic.