Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 567
THE ‘BLIND WATCHMAKER' WHO IS ALSO DEAF AND DUMB and require him only to concentrate his attention upon the eight living wonders quoted above and the amazing tasks they perform. . Let him demonstrate to the world how their complicated components and parts were assembled in such a complex sequence. Every step has to be justified with reference to the application of blind Darwinian principles. . Having done that he would still have quite a task ahead. . Each component would demand a similar treatment because each would be further subdivided into a variety of sub-parts and the material they are made of each playing a collective and individual role in the making of the finished product. . In the end, the availability and the nature of the material necessary for their making has to be attended to in its own right. Who manufactured that material aimlessly?. How was it manufactured without an appropriate factory?. Who created that complicated factory with extremely delicate know-how? How did such factories survive uninterrupted and undisturbed in the wide open nature of winds and sea storms? How did that material offer itself at the right moment to be pressed into service? It is a very plain and realistic exercise which Dawkins is requested to perform. He should confront the realities of biological mysteries which are so real yet far more mysterious than any biomorphic world can be. Dawkins will be welladvised to resolve the riddles of life with reference to life itself as it exists. We suggest he should begin this exercise with the electric fish, which we briefly listed as the eighth wonder. . LECTRIC FISH make use of their electric fields as. E navigation aids. These fish have an invisible. continuous field of electricity which surrounds the entire fish. On approaching an object, changes occur in its 533