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• In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but…
• The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on…
• There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution…
• For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ...…
• Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.
• We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.
• In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life.... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity…
• Many people, including many important and well-respected scientists, just don't want there to be anything beyond nature. They don't want a supernatural…
• As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward…
• The first point one has to get straight in discussions like this, is that ID is not the opposite of evolution. Rather,…
• I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to…
• I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?

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