Dave Freer Quotations

just the main front in a war which has nothing to do with Iraq,

The appendix itself and its apparent uselessness is a flimsy basis for a worldview.

Such as a universe that is not made of dead, mute, inert matter.

It's good to see that you have a rudimentary grasp of the design inference. I was not making a design inference when I employed the building analogy.

I can't help you there, but a simple prayer would be a start. You don't have to have all the answers in the universe to offer up a prayer. All that takes is a little humility and a willingness to let go of anger, assumptions, demands ... and actually it's funny how little faith it takes. That seems to come afterward.

The fact that cells reproduce and buildings don't has absolutely nothing to do with the point that was being made.

I have been known to do that, it just wasn't happening there.

Science, properly understood, should merely be defined as the knowledge man can gain from observing the natural world.

There is nothing particular about living things that should exempt...

but the idea of design might open our understanding to some things we never would have considered otherwise.