Author Richard Dawkins points to which of the following figures as being responsible for the virtual destruction of the argument from design?
A) Charles Darwin
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Thomas Aquinas
D) Socrates

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"The argument from design is the only one still in regular use today, and it still sounds to many like the ultimate knockdown argument…There has probably never been a more devastating rout of popular belief by clever reasoning than Charles Darwin's destruction of the argument from design. It was so unexpected. Thanks to Darwin, it is no longer true to say that nothing that we know looks designed unless it is designed. Evolution by natural selection produces an excellent simulacrum of design, mounting prodigious heights of complexity and elegance…" (The God Delusion, 2006).

Author Richard Dawkins Points to Which of the Following Figures