Dawkins admits he can’t prove Darwin’s theory
Prof Richard Dawkins has spent his career attacking Christians for their ‘blind faith’, yet admits he can’t prove his own beliefs, writes Andrew Halloway in popular booklet The Delusion of Evolution.
The world’s best-known evolutionist and atheist, the scourge of those who believe in God, has declared that he holds a belief that isn’t proved. Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has sold millions of books promoting evolution as a fact, and toured universities ridiculing those who believe in a Creator because he says they have no proof of their belief. Yet Dawkins has admitted that he holds a belief that cannot be proved – evolution.
Responding to the question, “What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?” posed by a science website in January 2005, Dawkins’ answer was: “I believe, but I cannot prove, that all life, all intelligence, all creativity and all ‘design’ anywhere in the universe is the direct or indirect product of Darwinian natural selection.”*
In an open letter to his daughter Juliet on her tenth birthday (published in his book ‘A Devil’s Chaplain’), Dawkins advises her to accept only beliefs supported by evidence: “Have you ever wondered how we know the things that we know?” asks Dawkins.
The answer, he says, is evidence.
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