The instinct to reject the sort of God and the sort of design that the machine model implies is surely right; yet Dawkins and his disciples continue to espouse it, just substituting the random installation of a blind algorithm for a divine plan. In doing so they have the least plausible of all worlds: a mechanistic universe, but one without a mechanic. If I believed the universe was mechanistic, I hope I’d have enough insight to be troubled by the question ‘How is it that the universe is such that it is so highly ordered that it appears to all observers to have design, given there are no
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