On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life (1859)

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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life (1859)

What if Darwinism fails? What would happen to “intellectual atheism”?

Dawkins, Richard (2006). The God Delusion. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 406. ISBN ISBN

Provine, William B. [Professor of Biological Sciences, Cornell University], "Evolution: Free will and punishment and meaning in life", Abstract of Will Provine's 1998 Darwin Day Keynote Address.

Simpson, George Gaylord [late Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, USA], "The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of its Significance for Man," [1949], Yale University Press: New Haven CT, 1960, reprint, p.344.

“I personally have been captured by the notion of extraterrestrial life, and especially extraterrestrial intelligence from childhood. It swept me up, and I've been involved in sending space craft to nearby planets to look for life and in the radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence…” (NOVA interview - )

George Wald, [Nobel Prize in Physiology, 1967] "The Origin of Life," Physics and Chemistry of Life, 1955, p. 12.

Dawkins, Richard [Zoologist and Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, Oxford University], "Put Your Money on Evolution", Review of Johanson D. & Edey M.A., "Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution", in New York Times, April 9, 1989, sec. 7, p34.

1. Models/dp/ /ref=pd_rhf_p_1/

Michael Behe, professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University, Darwin’s Black Box, The Free Press, 1996

Charles Hard Townes, winner of a Nobel Prize in Physics and a UC Berkeley professor /releases/2005/06/17_townes.shtml

Sir Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, As quoted in "There Must Be A God," Daily Express, Aug. 14, 1981 and "Hoyle On Evolution," Nature, Nov. 12, 1981, 105.)

Lewontin, Richard C. - Professor of Zoology and Biology, Harvard University

Dean Kenyon: Author of Biochemical Predestination and leading evolutionary biologist from the 1960s through the 1970s who eventually became a reluctant believer in Intelligent Design after being challenged by one of his students to explain protein assembly without original sequence information AccessResearch: Focus on Darwinism: Interview Kenyon (sample clip)

Seth Shostak, How to Sort Signs of Artificial Life from the Real Thing, SETI Thursday, Space.com, January 30, 2003 “Why then doesn't the message sequence on the DNA molecule also constitute prima facie evidence for an intelligent source? After all, DNA information is not just analogous to a message sequence such as Morse code, it is such a message sequence.” Thaxton, Charles B., Walter L. Bradley and Robert L. Olsen: The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Reassessing Current Theories, New York Philosophical Library, 1984, p

Timber circle at Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England

Given enough universes and/or enough time, this could have happened “naturally” - - time itself performs miracles; The impossible becomes possible! - - ?

See also: The Edge of Evolution – Michael Behe, June 2007

Non-Deliberate Potential ID Potential

Is a simple polished granite cube miraculous? From the perspective of natural design it is...