Lawrence Krauss Discussion (4/12) - Richard Dawkins
See more at http://RichardDawkins.net Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss sat down for a public discussion at Stanford University on Sunday, March 9th 2008. The focus was on Science education,...
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Dawkins:... Natural selection is the only theory that's ever been proposed and I think that will be proposed that's capable and accounting for the illusion of design which we see around us. So I'm not quite sure whether... ... Darwin thought the both natural selection and evolution itself were theories in the tentative, hypothetical sense. He spent most of his life gathering evidence for it. I think now we've reached the point where the fact of evolution is a fact, and nobody could seriously doubt it. There is still controversy over the theory that natural selection is the dominant driving force. I think nobody would doubt that it is the dominant driving force in adaptive evolution, but many people, including me, doubt that it is the...
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Dawkins:... Natural selection is the only theory that's ever been proposed and I think that will be proposed that's capable and accounting for the illusion of design which we see around us. So I'm not quite sure whether... ... Darwin thought the both natural selection and evolution itself were theories in the tentative, hypothetical sense. He spent most of his life gathering evidence for it. I think now we've reached the point where the fact of evolution is a fact, and nobody could seriously doubt it. There is still controversy over the theory that natural selection is the dominant driving force. I think nobody would doubt that it is the dominant driving force in adaptive evolution, but many people, including me, doubt that it is the...
