So professor Dawkins was not against intelligent design, just certain types of designers....
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Ben Stein:
What do think is the possibility that there then, intelligent design might turn out to be the answer to some issues in genetics... or in evolution? Richard Dawkins:
Well... it could come about in the following way: it could be that uh, at some earlier time somewhere in the universe a civilization e-evolved... by probably by some kind of Darwinian means to a very very high level of technology and designed a form of life that they seeded onto... perhaps this... this planet. Um, now that is a possibility. And uh, an intriguing possibility. And I suppose it's possible that you might find evidence for that if you look at the um, at the detail... details of our chemistry molecular biology you might find a signature of some sort of designer. Ben Stein:
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Wait a second. Richard Dawkins thought intelligent design might be a legitimate pursuit? Richard Dawkins:
Um, and that designer could well be a higher intelligence from elsewhere in the universe. But that higher intelligence would itself would have to come about by some explicable or ultimately explicable process. It couldn't have just jumped into existence spontaneously. That's the point. Ben Stein:
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So professor Dawkins was not against intelligent design, just certain types of designers. Such as God
What do think is the possibility that there then, intelligent design might turn out to be the answer to some issues in genetics... or in evolution? Richard Dawkins:
Well... it could come about in the following way: it could be that uh, at some earlier time somewhere in the universe a civilization e-evolved... by probably by some kind of Darwinian means to a very very high level of technology and designed a form of life that they seeded onto... perhaps this... this planet. Um, now that is a possibility. And uh, an intriguing possibility. And I suppose it's possible that you might find evidence for that if you look at the um, at the detail... details of our chemistry molecular biology you might find a signature of some sort of designer. Ben Stein:
[voice over]
Wait a second. Richard Dawkins thought intelligent design might be a legitimate pursuit? Richard Dawkins:
Um, and that designer could well be a higher intelligence from elsewhere in the universe. But that higher intelligence would itself would have to come about by some explicable or ultimately explicable process. It couldn't have just jumped into existence spontaneously. That's the point. Ben Stein:
[voice over]
So professor Dawkins was not against intelligent design, just certain types of designers. Such as God
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Now that is a possibility and an intriguing possibility
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and I suppose it's possible that you might find evidence for that
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If you look at the detail
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details of biochemistry molecular biology
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you might find a signature of some sort of designer
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Wait a second
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Richard Dawkins thought Intelligent Design
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might be a legitimate pursuit
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And that designer could well be a higher intelligence
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from elsewhere in the universe
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Well But that higher intelligence
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would itself have had to have come about
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by some explicable or ultimately explicable process
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It couldn't have just jumped into existence spontaneously That's the point
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So professor Dawkins was not against Intelligent Design
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just certain types of designers
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such as God
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Movie Summary
Ben Stein examines the issue of academic freedom and decides that there is none when it comes to the debate over intelligent design.
