Fine Atheism

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I finally got around to purchasing these two instead of reading them in the isle and buying something else. I’m pretty thrilled.

“An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: “I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn’t a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one.” I can’t help feeling that such a position, though logically sound, would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied, and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.”
— Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (1986)