Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 562
THE ‘BLIND WATCHMAKER' WHO IS ALSO DEAF AND DUMB ✓HE FINAL ANALYSIS Professor Dawkins has made in his concluding chapter relates to a choice between the. T belief in a deity and a belief in natural selection. . Who is the creator, that is to be identified. Whether he can discover Him or not, he certainly has no right to replace. God with natural selection. Natural selection cannot be referred to as a creator, because it does not create but only works on whatever has already been created. It is exasperating to find Professor Dawkins pointing his finger at a mere principle, without a personal identity, to be the deity ― a principle which is deaf, dumb and blind, and has no physical or spiritual existence. That most certainly is not the creator. If Professor Dawkins persists in denying the existence of any Creator, while he has no right to replace him with a principle, he once again has only two logical options. Either he should admit that creation exists, yet he has failed to identify the creator; or he should proclaim that there is no Creator yet the creation exists. This would be tantamount to saying that there is the book The Blind. Watchmaker but there has never been a Professor Dawkins who penned it!. In our previous chapter we have described the anatomy of an eye and the whole optic system. When we read Professor Dawkins' remarks on the creation of the eye, they appeared so trivial and deficient in a sense that we are deeply disappointed. He has depended entirely on his cumulative bit by bit theory to be at work, a theory which we have roundly rejected in accordance with his own admissions. Still we should like to draw his attention to the fact that to treat the eyeball as an independent organ is wrong. It is an interdependent part of a full optic system otherwise it ceases to play any role in the faculty of sight. . Just to indulge in the futile exercise of proving that a small percentage of vision is better than no vision at all does not 528