Re: George Coyne and Richard Dawkins

On Mon, 20 May 2024 17:16:16 +0100, Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> wrote:

In this interview, at the point I link to:
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https://youtu.be/68ejfHahFK4?t=254
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Father Coyne offers Neodarwinian Evolution as an explanation for, among
other things, the origin of the universe. And Professor Dawkins agrees
with him. How does evolution of any kind have anything to do with the
origin of the universe? surely it would need something to evolve from?

Going back just a few seconds makes the actual context clear:
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@3:13
There is no Catholic point of view on many things. There are on many
things but on Evolution there is no what I would call official
Catholic view. The point I've taken in the recent debate is that
sometimes churchmen present A View as if it were the official Catholic
position where it is not and that view sometimes establishes kind of a
conflict between religious Doctrine Catholic thinking and modern
scientific evolutionary theory.

4:10 Okay could you then tell us what your own position as George coin
is on Evolution and intelligent design
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Clearly Coyne incidentally mentions, and Dawkins thoughtlessly goes
along with, conflating concepts related to materialism (origin of the
universe) with concepts related to ID and evolution. 

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