Richard Dawkins on Simulacra
The Blind Watchmaker (New York: W.W. Norton, 1986), p. 316.
We cannot disprove beliefs like these, especially if it is assumed that
God took care that his interventions always closely mimicked what would
be expected from evolution by natural selection. All that we can say
about such beliefs is, firstly, that they are superfluous and,
secondly, that they assume the existence of the main thing we want to
explain, namely organized complexity. The one thing that makes
evolution such a neat theory is that it explains how organized
complexity can arise out of primeval simplicity.
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