

“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”
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“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
― Te-Tao Ching
― Te-Tao Ching

“With odds standing at 1 chance in 10164 of finding a functional protein among the possible 150-amino-acid compounds, the probability is 84 orders of magnitude (or powers of ten) smaller than the probability of finding the marked particle in the whole universe. Another way to say that is the probability of finding a functional protein by chance alone is a trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion times smaller than the odds of finding a single specified particle among all the particles in the universe.”
― Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design
― Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design

“The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics of magnetism, but from a source extrinsic to physics and chemistry altogether. Indeed, in both cases, the message transcends the properties of the medium. The information in DNA also transcends the properties of its material medium.”
― Darwinism, Design and Public Education
― Darwinism, Design and Public Education

“early theories of the origin of life did not need to address, nor did they anticipate, this problem. Since scientists did not know about the information-bearing properties of DNA, or how the cell uses that functionally specified information to build proteins, they did not worry about explaining these features of life.”
― Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design
― Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design
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