“The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.”
Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion
Source: The God Delusion
“Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind’s eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.”
— Richard Dawkins, book The Blind Watchmaker
Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 1 “Explaining the Very Improbable” (p. 5)
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