Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 550
THE 'BLIND WATCHMAKER' WHO IS ALSO DEAF AND DUMB reader believe that it is only his impression that they are complex and pre-designed with a goal to achieve. Here he confuses the mind of the unwary reader by taking him to and fro, from hindsight to foresight, from foresight to hindsight an amazing attempt at deceit. He would have the world believe that all man-made products are made with foresight, thus they must have purpose, design and complexity which are the work of a conscious mind. When turning to nature, he has to admit that in the products of nature the element of wonder is greater by thousands of factors than in the man-made products. Yet he insists that because we are accustomed to attribute design to human products, our hindsight, when we look at natural products, creates in us an illusion of purpose and design. Thus we are tricked into believing that they too must also have a conscious designer. Evidently, he has no argument to support this illusion theory except his authoritative word for it. On the contrary, whatever illustrations he chooses from real life most powerfully contradict his conclusion and prove the converse. . Take for instance his scholarly work on bats. As we have already discussed bats and some of the wonders related to them, we shall only refer to some of the observations made by Dawkins on this subject and remind him of his promise made on the first page of the preface of his book that: *. . . having built up the mystery, my other main aim is to remove it again by explaining the solution. ". Regrettably, this is a promise he does not keep. . To bats he devotes the better part of the chapter Good. Design. He writes: 516 'Their brains are delicately tuned packages of miniaturized electronic wizardry, programmed with