God's Blueprint Quotes

“Plants not only respond to reliable cues in their environments but also produce cues that communicate with other plants and with other organisms,’ said Richard Karban of the University of California, co-author of the study with Kaori Shiojiri of Kyoto University. The research, published in the journal Ecology Letters, showed that plants are ‘capable of more sophisticated behaviour than we imagined’, Professor Karban added.”
― Christopher Knight, God's Blueprint: Scientific Evidence that the Earth was Created to Produce Humans

“Most people take the existence of life for granted, but to a physicist like me it seems astounding. How do stupid atoms do such clever things?”
― Christopher Knight, God's Blueprint: Scientific Evidence that the Earth was Created to Produce Humans

“But we must remember the wise words of Albert Einstein: ‘Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
― Christopher Knight, God's Blueprint: Scientific Evidence that the Earth was Created to Produce Humans

“You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.’ Thich Nhat Hanh”
― Christopher Knight, God's Blueprint: Scientific Evidence that the Earth was Created to Produce Humans

“Given that humans are walking colonies of Earth-life, we have to also remember that all life on Earth is one. Everything works together –”
― Christopher Knight, God's Blueprint: Scientific Evidence that the Earth was Created to Produce Humans

“Because we are Earthbound creatures at the top of the evolutionary chain, we tend to see ourselves as being separate from our planet but we are really just animated bits of the Earth itself.”
― Christopher Knight, God's Blueprint: Scientific Evidence that the Earth was Created to Produce Humans

“However, although some of their DNA lives on in modern humans, the last Neanderthals died out in southern Europe around 25,000 years ago. The available evidence suggests that Neanderthals could talk, because they had the same language gene as modern humans. One cannot help but wonder what religious belief the Neanderthal people had. It would seem impossible for such an advanced species not to have done so.”
― Christopher Knight, God's Blueprint: Scientific Evidence that the Earth was Created to Produce Humans

“It has been determined that between 2 per cent and 4 per cent of the genetic blueprint of present-day non-Africans has come from Neanderthals. Anthropologist Erik Trinkhaus, of Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, who has long argued for Neanderthal–modern human interbreeding based on skeletal evidence, believes it could be far higher – maybe 10, or even 20, per cent.”
― Christopher Knight, God's Blueprint: Scientific Evidence that the Earth was Created to Produce Humans

“Another strange fact is that one form of these alien entities has been with us since we were little more than microbes ourselves. Mitochondria are physically independent structures that contain their own DNA designated as mtDNA, which is inherited by humans down the female line. Analysis of mtDNA in the brain tissue of females has allowed very accurate mapping of evolutionary relationships, leading to the conclusion that modern humans evolved in Africa.”
― Christopher Knight, God's Blueprint: Scientific Evidence that the Earth was Created to Produce Humans

“Your body obviously is made up of countless human cells containing your DNA, but you may be surprised to learn that those exclusively human bits of you are a small minority of your body mass. Around 60 per cent of our body weight is water – but of the living matter less than one tenth is actually human. The remaining 90 per cent of that living matter is made up of other life forms – billions of individual creatures with their own DNA living in a symbiotic relationship. Despite it being your body, we are essentially outnumbered ten to one by other creatures.”
― Christopher Knight, God's Blueprint: Scientific Evidence that the Earth was Created to Produce Humans

“Whilst religions are prone to produce stories of myth and magic, science has come up with its own set of apparently irrational concepts. Quantum physicists have produced a range of explanations for the way that the smallest pieces of the universe behave that does not sit comfortably with any normal sense of logic. Is it reasonable to believe that some physical objects have to rotate through 720 degrees to return to their original position? Is it rational to accept that some sub-atomic particles can communicate instantaneously with each other across the span of the entire universe? Both of these are acts of belief that fly in the face of the evidence of our eyes.”
― Christopher Knight, God's Blueprint: Scientific Evidence that the Earth was Created to Produce Humans