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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?

Is it really credible that random processes could have constructed a reality...which excels in every sense anything produced by the intelligence of man?

Michael Denton
Reality, Men, Evolution
Michael Denton (2002). “Evolution: A Theory in Crisis”, Adler & Adler Pub

Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 gms, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized 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 nonliving world.

Michael Denton
Men, Cells, Atoms

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 of evolution is no more nor less than the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century.

Michael Denton
Theory Of Evolution, Able, Natural

The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval astrology than a serious twentieth century scientific theory has become a reality for evolutionary biologists.

Michael Denton
Powerful, Reality, Ideas
Michael Denton (2002). “Evolution: A Theory in Crisis”, Adler & Adler Pub

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, nor is there the slightest empirical hint of an evolutionary sequence among all the incredibly diverse cells on earth.

Michael Denton
Cells, Design, Hints

Considering the way the prebiotic soup is referred to in so many discussions of the origin of life as an already established reality, it comes as something of a shock to realize that there is absolutely no positive evidence for its existence.

Michael Denton
Reality, Origin Of Life, Soup
Michael Denton (2002). “Evolution: A Theory in Crisis”, Adler & Adler Pub

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 an observation], and contrary to what is widely assumed by evolutionary biologists today, it has always been the anti-evolutionists [i.e creationist], not the evolutionists, in the scientific community who have struck rigidly to the facts and adhered to a more strictly empirical approach... It was Darwin the evolutionist who was retreating from the facts.

Michael Denton
Real, Community, Doctrine

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 the validity of Darwinian claims. In fact, the number of biologists who have expressed some degree of disillusionment is practically endless.

Michael Denton
Past, Numbers, Firsts
Michael Denton (2002). “Evolution: A Theory in Crisis”, Adler & Adler Pub

In the final analysis the hierarchic pattern is nothing like the straightforward witness for organic evolution that is commonly assumed. There are facets of the hierarchy which do not flow naturally from any sort of random undirected evolutionary process. If the hierarchy suggests any model of nature it is typology and not evolution. How much easier it would be to argue the case for evolution if all nature's divisions were blurred and indistinct, if the systema naturalae was largely made up of overlapping classes indicative of sequence and continuity.

Michael Denton
Class, Would Be, Finals

Making art is like humour - very moment dependent.

Michael Denton
Art, Moments, Humour

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