Vetenskap & Religion: Dawkins om det icke-tänkande vi kallar “Intelligent Design”
2007-07-11 
Richard Dawkins
"Here is the message that an imaginary ‘intelligent design theorist’ might broadcast to scientists: ‘If you don’t understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don’t know how the nerve impulses works? Good! You don’t understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don’t go to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God. Dear scientist, don’t work on your mysteries. Bring us your mysteries, for we can use them. Don’t squander precious ignorance by researching it away. We need those glorius gaps as a last refugee for God.’ St Augustine said it quite openly: ‘There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drive us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn’."
Referens: R. Dawkins, The God Delusion, Black Swan (2007)
Andra bloggar om: Richard Dawkins, evolution, kreationism, skapelsetro, intelligent design
