Epilogue

Epilogue

―They‘re there because they‘re there because they‘re there because they‘re there! ...‖

This was the remarkable comment that Dawkins made in one of his 1991 Christmas lectures (lecture 4 of the series: Growing up in the universe) when he was refuting a little girl‟s answer to the question: “What do you think flowers are for?”! This is the kind of consciousness raising that he was teaching to those poor kids in the audience that day, as opposed of course to acknowledging that “The creator made things the way they are for a justifiable purpose, one that we should seek to learn from Him”! No, he argues, nature is not the way it is for our purpose as humans; because it also works good for the needs of every other being on Earth (hence the title of the lecture: The ultra-violet garden!) So the conclusion is: all living creatures are just viruses the programming code of which “Just happened” to give none but the command: “Copy me”, and that‟s all that life is about!

This is how he teaches them to approach the Big questions of the world around them! This is what children are taught in elementary schools under the tag of science and biology! ―It‘s there because it‘s there!‖ If this is not direct atheistic indoctrination, and assault on all human knowledge, then I don‟t know what is!

Based on this intellectual “vomit” of argumentation that we have seen in chapters 3 and 4 of (The God Delusion), Dawkins believes he has come to the conclusion that there is “almost certainly” no God! After all this long struggle of his against basic reasoning and A-priori rationality, all that he has to offer us is the conclusion that “God” is very “unlikely” to exist!

He really expects people to let go of their commonsense and their very grasp on reality itself for the sake of such a radically corrupt application of “statistical probability”! He really thinks that people would spoil their minds, twist their own tongues, and go against the clearest and the most obvious conclusion of all humanly affordable conclusions, all on the grounds of comparative “improbability”! And for the sake of what? The comic book

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image of a “mount improbable” that is – according to his own use of probability - orders of magnitude more improbable than the single act of perfect creation! And the idea of “universe reproduction” and natural selection among “universes” as explanation for the way our universe is so perfectly tuned in favor of man! The idea that those unbelievably perfect “singularities” that gave rise to both the origination of this Earth, and the life on it, as improbable as he says they are, all took place by pure chance, and might have all – to certain degrees - taken place on billions of other planets, but only this one was “lucky” enough to have everything as perfectly adjusted for our human life as it is!

All that, and he denies the creator on the basis of “improbability”, and the arrogant position that unless he could put the being of the creator Himself to a simulation or into a test tube, he should not accept His existence!

What could you possibly do to such a mentality?

If he believes that belief in the existence of an almighty creator is to humans at the rank of a “theory of science” or comes from a “hypothesis” that a man once came up with and had people believe it, in the sense that they chose to adopt it only after the postulation of a theory, and a vast process of gathering of “evidence”, and production of likely explanations that serve the theory - a position that is built and rebuilt entirely on arguments from statistical improbability –, then it is he who is in deep delusion, and he certainly does not accept the way human reason works! This is not how humans come to the natural conviction of the existence of a supreme creator! They do not “come to it” actually, they come with it; they are born to find it there at the bottom of their souls!

Yet he asks them to close their eyes, neglect the very obvious light of the sun, and start gathering things that may make them “feel” – in their deliberate blindfold – as though there is no daylight at all, and that it is only an illusion that this is how things appear to be! He seeks to have them believe that it is very “improbable” that this light they see shining down on the face of the Earth, is indeed the light of the sun, coming down from that huge “lamp” of fire up there in the middle of the sky! He works to convince

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them that they may indeed need to have their “consciousness raised” for them, so they could make such a leap against the stream of their own human perception and reason!

This is what he‟s really offering you, my reader! In order to get you out of your naturally justified belief in the creator, and to convince you that His existence is “statistically improbable”, he knows he has to get you out of your commonsense, and invert your entire rationale as a human being! And that‟s exactly what this part of his book was about!

So in short I say:

1 – The existence of the creator was never a theoretical assumption; it is natural axiomatic reason, natural language and intuition, and any attempt to deny it is as false – linguistically - as suggesting that Disorder = order (design = non-design), and as false – mathematically – as this expression: 0 = 1, or in Darwinian terms: (given enough time, 0+0+0+0+ … +0 = 1)

2 - There‟s absolutely no empirical observation that could ever tell us any factual information about the historical origins of natural life or the universe! Uniformitarianism is a philosophical position that we are only inclined to accept when no reliable evidence of otherwise could be established! It definitely has nothing to do with those singularity events at the origins of the system! It will always remain to be a hypothesis to help produce theory on progression of events in nature! It should never be taken for argument against any form of evidence that suggests singularities on the path of natural, geologic, or cosmic history, especially when the evidence for such exceptional events is authentic scripture!

3 - As for “forensic” theorization, we have already explained in detail how irrational and pointless it is to place the compilation of forensic evidence “explanatory theories” in support of a fundamentally flawed theory that comes in opposition to what is supposed to be “A-priori” rationale and even linguistic necessity

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Forensic science applies probabilistic theorization based on models and patterns of previously observed and studied cases of human behavior (or any other observable recurrent phenomena for that matter) within rules of this system we observe, and this clearly does not apply to the singular story of emergence of natural life on this Earth (or the rest of the system itself).

4 – Chaos and random are only in the eye of the limited human beholder; whereas the system is obviously too perfect for us to even grasp; no purposeless or “chance events” could – at any level of rational or linguistic integrity - be introduced at any point to the history of natural life, at its origin or afterwards!

5 – Statistical improbability does not apply to primordial events or the question of origins, and even if we were to apply it – following the false atheistic conception of improbability – we would easily blow the Darwinian myth out of the water! This is because not only does it defy basic reason and rational necessity; it actually backfires in the atheist face on applying this very understanding of probability itself!

Natural science has no impact whatsoever, positive or negative, on the question of whether or not the creator exists.

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In the next part – to be discussed in volume 2 - Dawkins moves on to “entertain” us with his view on how religion “originated”, (by natural selection of course!) and starts his blind campaign against what he views to be the corruption caused by religion, on the hope that by destroying Christianity and perhaps a couple more religions as well, he could have his reader convinced once and for all, that there is no creator to submit to, and that He has sent nothing at all to mankind!

Written by; Abulfeda‟ Ibn Mass‟oud

Abulfeda1431@yahoo.com

Finished on the Nineteenth of Ramadan 1430 (After Hijrah),September 9, 2009