Richard Dawkins Quotes About Perfection

• Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.

  Richard Dawkins

  Distance, Science, Vanity

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.58, W. W. Norton & Company

• Nowadays theologians aren't quite so straightforward as Paley. They don't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently designed by a creator, just like a watch. But there is a tendency to point to them and say 'It is impossible to believe' that such complexity, or such perfection, could have evolved by natural selection. Whenever I read such a remark, I always feel like writing 'Speak for yourself' in the margin.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Writing, Self

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.46, W. W. Norton & Company

• Durante siglos, el argumento más poderoso a favor de la existencia de Dios a partir del mundo físico fue el llamado argumento del diseño: Los seres vivos son tan bellos y elegantes y aparentemente tienen un propósito, que sólo pueden haber sido creados por un diseñador inteligente. Pero [Charles] Darwin proporcionó una explicación más sencilla. Su método consiste en una mejora gradual e incremental, partiendo de comienzos muy simples y avanzando paso a paso hacia una mayor complejidad, una mayor elegancia y una mayor perfección adaptativa.

  Richard Dawkins

  Hermosa, Poderosa, Inteligente

  Fuente: inters.org

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