The Eyes Have It

Posted by Stephen Green on 21 Jul 2008 at 03:16 pm Hitchens sees a new wrinkle in the debate over “intelligent design.” Tagged as: Uncategorized () 2 Responses to “The Eyes Have It” New wrinkle? A lack of eyeballs is hardly a firm basis for basic belief. I don’t think the salamander is proof one way or the other. “Except that the eyes were denoted only by little concavities or indentations. Even as I was grasping the implications of this, the fine voice of Sir David Attenborough was telling me how many millions of years it had taken for these denizens of the underworld to lose the eyes they had once possessed.” millions? why would there be eye sockets at all? As we say in Austin - onward through the fog. Normally I highly esteem Mr. Hitchen’s great intellect. Here, however, he seems to take the position that a salamander with... [read full story]