Dave Freer Quotations

but the idea of design might open our understanding to some things we never would have considered otherwise.

I have been known to do that, it just wasn't happening there.

I can't help you there, but a simple prayer would be a start. You don't have to have all the answers in the universe to offer up a prayer. All that takes is a little humility and a willingness to let go of anger, assumptions, demands ... and actually it's funny how little faith it takes. That seems to come afterward.

just the main front in a war which has nothing to do with Iraq,

Such as a universe that is not made of dead, mute, inert matter.

The appendix itself and its apparent uselessness is a flimsy basis for a worldview.

The fact that cells reproduce and buildings don't has absolutely nothing to do with the point that was being made.

...the part about the dogs was fairly funny...

There is nothing particular about living things that should exempt...

Science, properly understood, should merely be defined as the knowledge man can gain from observing the natural world.

For example, a Frank Lloyd Wright building of a certain period will most likely share many traits with his other buildings of the same period.

It's good to see that you have a rudimentary grasp of the design inference. I was not making a design inference when I employed the building analogy.

But it has nothing to do with the analogy I was making.