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Who gave the decisive deathblow to the argument from design on the basis of biological complexity? Both philosophers and biologists are divided on this point (Oppy 1996; Dawkins 1986; Sober 2008). Some have claimed that the biological design argument did not falter until Darwin provided a proper naturalistic explanation for adaptive complexity; others maintain that David Hume had already shattered the argument to pieces by sheer logical force several decades earlier, in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Hume 2007 [1779]). Elliott Sober has been among the philosophers who maintain that, as Hume was not in a position to offer a serious alternative explanation of adaptive complexity, it is hardly surprising that 'intelligent people strongly favored the design hypothesis' (Sober 2000, 36). In his most recent book, however, Sober (2008) carefully develops what he thinks is the most charitable reconstruction of the design argument, and proceeds to show why it is defective for intrinsic reasons (for earlier version of this argument, see Sober 1999, 2002). Sober argues that the design argument can be rejected even without the need to consider alternative explanations for adaptive complexity (Sober 2008, 126): 'To see why the design argument is defective, there is no need to have a view as to whether Darwin’s theory of evolution is true' (Sober 2008, 154).

Maarten Boudry
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He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had to stay sober for a few hours; it was that important.

Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April
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Drunk words are sober thoughts

Asmaa Ed-dahri, Chasing Happiness
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

William Butler Yeats
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I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science.

Rob Lowe
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It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?

Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
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Since the day I decided to become sober and a mother, I've been trying to become who I am supposed to be.

Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

H. G. Wells
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Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

John Irving, Last Night in Twisted River
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My mind may be sober, but my confidence is high!

Habeeb Akande
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