Sentence examples for illusion of design from inspiring English sources

"On the Origin of Species" revealed how physical processes alone produced the illusion of design.

"On the Origin of Species" revealed how physical processes alone produce the illusion of design.

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins closed the convention with a discussion on the probability of our existence, the luck of individual existence, gratitude, evolution and the illusion of design.

Natural selection is arguably the most momentous idea ever to occur to a human mind, because it — alone as far as we know — explains the elegant illusion of design that pervades the living kingdoms and explains, in passing, us.

Prof Dawkins attacked religion for providing a "terrific illusion of design which fooled humanity into the 19th Century".

Today's neo-Paleyans must also concur with Paley that the watch's delicate functionality could not be the product of chance, inherent "principles of order," or laws of matter, nor merely an illusion of design.

Robert Foley refers to this as "the illusion of purpose, design, and progress".

Susskind, L. The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design (Little, Brown and Company, 2005).

There are meaningless stainless-steel strips and applied brickwork to create a false illusion of a design.

We measure the degree of overconfidence in three forms miscalibration, a better-than-average effect, and the illusion of control, and design two treatments (Ambiguity and Risk) that differ by the prior information available about the distribution of the dividend in the asset market.

Gemmail, plural Gemmaux, in stained glass, technique employing fused layers of coloured glass fragments illuminated from behind, creating an illusion of three-dimensionality in the design.