"The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues."
-Michael Behe
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"It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.“
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"Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted."
-Michael Behe
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"It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection."
-Michael Behe
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"It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on."
-Michael Behe
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"The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion."
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"We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box."
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"The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development."
-John Desmond Bernal
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"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun."
-John Desmond Bernal
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