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computer-assisted research, the British cation of his 1986 book The Blind
paleoanthropologist Robin Crompton Watchmaker, in which he tells his rea-
showed that such a compound walking ders that: “Biology is the study of
style was impossible. (See Compound complicated things that give the appe-
walking.) Crompton’s conclusion was arance of having been designed for a
that “a living being can either walk up- purpose.” 56 Despite this admission,
right, or on all fours.” A walking style Dawkins maintains that life evolved
between these two would be impossib- spontaneously through chance effects—
le, as it would consume too much ener- a process he describes using the ana-
gy. Therefore, it is impossible for any logy of the “blind watchmaker.” Accor-
semi-bipedal life form to have existed. ding to Dawkins, the watchmaker is not
(See, Origin of walking upright, the.) only blind, but also unconscious. It is
therefore impossible for the blind watc-
hmaker to see ahead, make plans or har-
Blind Watchmaker bor any objective in the formation of li-
Deception, the
fe. 57 Yet on the one hand, Dawkins
Richard Dawkins became a great sets out the complex order in living
proponent of Darwinism with the publi- things, while on the other he seeks to
Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)