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If you define "programed" as in the human quest to perpetuate the species and achieve basic human survival skills , yes. 


But that doesn't mean any "thing" programmed it. Just as it can be proven that many sea creatures were once land animals species over millions of years adapt & evolve on their own... if they don't go extinct for some reason. 




Your question is much like saying... The number 20 is either 19 +1 or 10 + 10... when those are not the only possibilities at all. People start with basic perpetuation of the species adaptation just like any other creature. As our brain has evolved to a higher level than any other know creature with a much higher power to reason, calculate and express emotional feelings we learn and add to those basic survival skills on our own over centuries and centuries of time.


So "free will" is relative. Right & wrong is a judgment learned over time by seeing cause & effect not something die cast into us. For instance sometimes killing is acceptable sometimes it is not.  




Again (and I don't mean to speak for you Dawkins), but I think what's being said is... you can't have it just one way. He's simply turning the good/bad argument around as to say neither make much sense. 




And again I see the box you're trying to create here and if those were the only two option you may well be correct... but I think all the above observations apply here as well. 


The fact that all things alive or not are made up of basic and identified elements and when those are combined in such a way as to create any type of life they try to survive. But that does not prove there must be one God or a hundred Gods or no God. It proves only that once something comes to life it tries to perpetuate to survive... and that's all.  


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