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1. Responses to 'Gods and Earthlings' by Richard Dawkins

Comment #165953 by bipedalist on April 22, 2008 at 4:08 pm

What I find arrogant is the idea that we could ever begin to know what caused life in the first place. We are simply not capable nor prepared to know it. And it's beside the point, really. Can you imagine if every scientific argument had to start with "the designer intended..."

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