Absent Quote by Michael Behe

“The strong appearance of design [in nature] allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then, absent compelling evidence to the contrary, we have warrant to conclude it's a duck. Design should not be overlooked simply because it's so obvious.”

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I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

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Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.

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The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

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It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.

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