[Ahban]

I suppose my #328 would address most of your post to me as well.

Here is the Lewontin quote ref... http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/tools/Quotes/lewontin.asp

[Dimensio]

I looked up the quote. It's missing the end piece, where he justifies and qualifies his statement:

"The eminent Kant scholar Lewis Beck used to say that anyone who could believe in God could believe in anything. To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen. "

In other words, he's saying that we must assuming only the natural and reject the supernatural (within scientific experimentation) because once we start assuming a "god", we throw out any chance of objectivity -- if you allow explanations outside of known properties of the natural universe, then you can just make anything up for your reasoning and justify it as a "miracle".

Thing is, he's right.