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> [The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval astrology than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/the-hold-of-the-evolutionary-paradigm-is-so-powerful-that-an-idea/)

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> [Throughout the past century there has always existed a significant minority of first-rate biologists who have never been able to bring themselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/throughout-the-past-century-there-has-always-existed-a-significant/)

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> [ In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity \[i.e evolutionism\] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/in-a-very-real-sense-therefore-advocacy-of-the-doctrine-of-continuity/)

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## More by Michael Denton

> [Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature…Ultimately, the Darwinian theory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/nowhere-was-darwin-able-to-point-to-one-bona-fide-case-of-natural/)

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> [The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval astrology than a serious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/the-hold-of-the-evolutionary-paradigm-is-so-powerful-that-an-idea/)

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> [Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/molecular-biology-has-shown-that-even-the-simplest-of-all-living/)

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> [Is it really credible that random processes could have constructed a reality...which excels in every sense anything produced by the intelligence of man?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/is-it-really-credible-that-random-processes-could-have-constructed-a/)

[Michael Denton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-denton/)

> [Making art is like humour - very moment dependent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/making-art-is-like-humour-very-moment-dependent/)

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> [Throughout the past century there has always existed a significant minority of first-rate biologists who have never been able to bring themselves to accept…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/throughout-the-past-century-there-has-always-existed-a-significant/)

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> [“In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination of science…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/in-the-discoveries-of-science-the-harmony-of-the-spheres-is-also-now/)

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> [ In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity \[i.e evolutionism\] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism \[i.e., logic… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/in-a-very-real-sense-therefore-advocacy-of-the-doctrine-of-continuity/)

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> [In terms of their basic biochemical design…no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any other system,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/in-terms-of-their-basic-biochemical-design-no-living-system-can-be/)

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> [In the final analysis the hierarchic pattern is nothing like the straightforward witness for organic evolution that is commonly assumed. There are facets of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/in-the-final-analysis-the-hierarchic-pattern-is-nothing-like-the/)

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> [“The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/the-complexity-of-the-simplest-known-type-of-cell-is-so-great-that-it/)

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> [“The theory of phlogiston was an inversion of the true nature of combustion. Removing phlogiston was in reality adding oxygen, while adding phlogiston was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/the-theory-of-phlogiston-was-an-inversion-of-the-true-nature-of/)

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> [Considering the way the prebiotic soup is referred to in so many discussions of the origin of life as an already established reality, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/considering-the-way-the-prebiotic-soup-is-referred-to-in-so-many/)

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> [“To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million times until…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/to-grasp-the-reality-of-life-as-it-has-been-revealed-by-molecular/)

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