"This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."
Sir Isaac Newton
"A common-sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature."
Fred Hoyle
"The scientist’s religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, in comparison with it, the highest intelligence of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."
Albert Einstein
‘’The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the mass of the proton and the electron… The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life."
Stephen Hawking
"DNA is biological computer code, only far, far more advanced than anything we have ever built."
Bill Gates
"…the origin of life field is a failure – we still do not have even a plausible coherent model …for the emergence of life on earth. A succession of exceedingly unlikely steps is essential ...; through the multiplication of probabilities, these make the final outcome seem almost like a miracle.’
Eugene Koolen
"The emergence of life from a primordial soup on the Earth is merely an article of faith that scientists are finding difficult to shed. There is no experimental evidence to support this at the present time".
Chandra Wickramasinge
"...The scientific method does not allow us to exclude data which lead to the conclusion that the universe, life and man are based on design. To be forced to believe only one conclusion – that everything in the universe happened by chance – would violate the very objectivity of science itself. Certainly there are those who argue that the universe evolved out of a random process, but what random process could produce the brain of a man or the system of the human eye?"
Wernher von Braun
"Darwinism is based on prior commitment to materialism, not on a philosophically neutral assessment of the evidence. Separate the philosophy from the science, and the proud tower collapses."
Philip Johnson
"In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact."
Ron Carlson
"Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is."
Blaise Pascal
"Fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design."
Antony Flew
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
"The fathers of modern science – Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Boyle and many others – saw design in the universe and, indeed, were inspired to discover the laws of nature because of their belief in a transcendent lawgiver."
Marcos Eberlin
"An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to be satisfied to get it going."
Francis Crick
BACKGROUND IMAGE: section through the chambered nautilus shell, one of the most exquisite examples of geometry in the natural world.
Each chamber is essentially a bouyancy tank, with which the nautilus adjusts its level in the water in search of food. How and why did evolution generate such perfect geometry in fulfilling such a simple utilitarian purpose, for which any shape would do?
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Intelligence and purpose in the natural world
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