Richard Dawkins admits to Intelligent Design
Oh this is just dynamite 
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So if I get this right, it’s all down to a technologically advanced alien civilisation with higher intelligence, although Dawkins has no idea where they may have come from of course
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Richard Dawkins stumped by creationists’ question
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October 28th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
You didn’t get it right.
Dawkins is giving an example on how an intelligent designer could be involved in creation of life. He doesn’t believe it to be the case nor does he believe there is any scientific evidence supporting this idea. He is just intelligent enough to think of a way where he might – however unlikely it is – be proven wrong in the future.
October 30th, 2009 at 12:44 am
First: creation of life (abiogenesis) is not evolution. The mechanism that got life started is different than the mechanism that we know caused it to sprout in an increasingly complex array of forms. Stein is (deliberately, I think) conflating two different ideas.
Second: as Lars points out, Dawkins doesn’t say that an advanced alien civilization WAS the designer. He said that conceivably, this is ONE possibility that he cannot rule out entirely, but one for which there is no evidence at all. It’s pure speculation. The advanced alien civilization could just have easily been an invisible pink unicorn.
Third: Dawkins makes the point that the presence of any such designer would not preclude evolution (that is, common descent by means of unguided natural selection (genetic variation combined with environmental pressures)).
Dawkins wasn’t floored by Stein’s question, he was floored by Stein’s ignorance. And probably a little suspicious of Stein’s actual motives, I suspect.