Evolution and Science Quotes

COMPLEX ORGAN BY SLIGHT MODIFICATION: "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possible have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down."  Charles Darwin

BALANCING THE FACTS: "A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question".  Charles Darwin

IRREDUCIBLE COMPLEXITY: "My conclusion can be summed up in a single word: design.  I say that based on science.  I believe that irreducibly complex systems are strong evidence of a purposeful, intentional design by an intelligent agent." Michael Behe (Ph.D.) - Biochemist, Lehigh University

MUTATIONS: "But all these mutations reduce the information in the gene by making a protein less specific. They add no information and they add no new molecular capability. Indeed, all mutations studied destroy information. None of them can serve as an example of a mutation that can lead to the large changes of macroevolution. ... Whoever thinks macroevolution can be made by mutations that lose information is like the merchant who lost a little money on every sale but thought he could make it up on volume."  Dr. Lee Spetner, a Jewish scientist and expert on mutations state in his book Not by Chance: Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution, pp. 159–60:

MUTATIONS: "Darwinian evolution only has chance mutations at its disposal.  Because no advance thinking' can possibly be allowed, there is no way that the nucleotides can arrange themselves in a 'predefined code', since this assumes prior knowledge.  Thus the very existence of the DNA-coded language stalls evolution at the first hurdle." Andrew McIntosh Ph.D. Mathematics, In Six Days, 2000, p. 160

RNA: "But no one has demonstrated how RNA could have formed before living cells were around to make it.  According to Scripps Research Institute biochemist Gerald Joyce, RNA is not a plausible candidate for the first building block of life 'because it is unlikely to have been produced in significant quantities on the primitive earth'.  Even if RNA could have been produced, it would not have survived long under the conditions thought to have existed on the early Earth."  Jonathan Wells (PH.D. Molecular and Cell Biology, Berkeley Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth, 2000, p. 23.

INFORMATION IN DNA: "Human DNA contains more organized information than  the Encyclopedia Britannica.  If the full text of the encyclopedia were to arrive in computer code from outer space, most people would regard this as proof of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence.  But when seen in nature, it is explained as the workings of random forces." -- George Sim Johnson

BACTERIA CELLS: "Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on earth today, bacteria cells, are exceedingly complex objects.  Although the tiniest bacteria cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10^-12 gms, each is in effect a veritable microminiaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the non-living world."  Michael Denton Ph.D. Molecular Biology - Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, 1985, p. 250.

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