This week we see whether or not Richard Dawkins successfully makes the case in Climbing Mount Improbable for how complex biological life could have formed.  Spoiler alert…not really.  You are God’s greatest creation!! “In Climbing Mount Improbable, I expressed the point in a parable.  One side of a mountain is a sheer cliff, impossible to climb, but on the other side is a gentile slope to the summit.  On the summit sits a complex device such as an eye or a bacterial flagellar motor.  The absurd notion that such complexity could spontaneously self-assemble is symbolized by leaping from the foot of the cliff to the top in one bound.  Evolution, by contrast, goes around the back of the mountain and creeps up the gentle slope to the summit: easy!” Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, 2006 pg 147 “Religion is so wasteful, so extravagant; and Darwinian selection habitually targets and eliminates waste.  Nature is a miserly accountant, grudging the pennies, watching the clock, punishing the smallest extravagance.” Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, 2006 pg 190 “On the other hand, we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed.  This preservation of favorable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest.” Charles Darwin, The Origin of the Species, 1859, Page 77

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