Richard Dawkins in defense of Krauss, claimed that my critique misrepresented the evolutionary mechanism as a purely random process. Instead, both Krauss and Dawkins insisted, in Dawkins’s words, that “natural selection is a nonrandom process,” implying that it presumably could succeed in finding the extremely rare functional arrangements of nucleotide bases and amino acids within the space of possible arrangements in available evolutionary time. After the debate, Dawkins defended Krauss on the blog site Why Evolution Is True, operated by University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne, another
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