My entire world view is framed in terms of the http://tautology.wikia.com/wiki/Pattern_or_design premise. Therefore 'natural selection' the oxymoron can be no more a tautology than the pleonasm free gift as I showed at
http://tautology.wikia.com/wiki/Preferential_decision.
=== Martinez on Dawkins ===
https://groups.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=topic/talk.origins/cEb2rxT5qiE#!topic/talk.origins/cEb2rxT5qiE
:"......If you take the time to read Dawkins very closely (and I have),
***following his context,*** he does not actually say or admit that
he himself accepts, along with science, existence of an appearance of
design. What he actually says, is, IF anyone claims to see an
appearance of design THEN it must be a by-product of the power of
selection. Dawkins is saying: "Look, we know for a fact that the law
of natural selection exists; and we have yet to discover any evidence
supporting the existence of God; therefore those who see an appearance
of design the same must be a product of a powerful selection process."
He concludes that said appearance is an illusion, which provides him
and his colleagues the safe harbor of being able to say "we don't see
it." ............" When you read Dawkins closely, this is what he is saying
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