There are lots of people that have dedicated long hours, careers, even lives to the pursuit of knowledge. The conclusion of that pursuit is overwhelmingly in favor of that which you (mis)characterize as "blind."
There you go again with the arguments to authority and popularity...
From the inside jacket of "The Blind Watchmaker", Richard Dawkins
One of the most famous arguments of the creationist theory of the universe is the eighteenth-century theologian William Paley's: Just as a watch is too complicated and too functional to have sprung into existence by accident, so too must all living things, with their far greater complexity, be purposefully designed. But as Richard Dawkins, professor of zoology at Oxford University, demonstrates in this brilliant and eloquent riposte to the Argument from Design, the analogy is false. Natural selection, the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process that Darwin discovered, has no purpose in mind. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker. Emphasis mine
I got a grin from the following:
It can be discouraging, but there's no reason to give up on the process and just wait around for an audience with your mythological creator. :^)
No... I'm looking forward to your audience with my "mythological" creator. (Romans 14:1)
There are lots of people
There are lots of people that have dedicated long hours, careers, even lives to the pursuit of knowledge. The conclusion of that pursuit is overwhelmingly in favor of that which you (mis)characterize as "blind."
There you go again with the arguments to authority and popularity...
From the inside jacket of "The Blind Watchmaker", Richard Dawkins
One of the most famous arguments of the creationist theory of the universe is the eighteenth-century theologian William Paley's: Just as a watch is too complicated and too functional to have sprung into existence by accident, so too must all living things, with their far greater complexity, be purposefully designed. But as Richard Dawkins, professor of zoology at Oxford University, demonstrates in this brilliant and eloquent riposte to the Argument from Design, the analogy is false. Natural selection, the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process that Darwin discovered, has no purpose in mind. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker. Emphasis mine
I got a grin from the following:
It can be discouraging, but there's no reason to give up on the process and just wait around for an audience with your mythological creator. :^)
No... I'm looking forward to your audience with my "mythological" creator. (Romans 14:1)
:^P
Be blessed, and thanks for your input...