Undeniable Quotes

“Many of us have bought into the idea that science, though practiced by humans, has managed to rid itself of human flaws. But if we intend to question everything, perhaps we should begin by questioning whether the human testing of human ideas can be so simple, considering how complicated humans are.”
― Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed

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― Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed

“To know where everything came from is to know where we came from, and where we came from has everything to do with who we are, and who we are has everything to do with how we ought to live.”
― Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed

“Harm comes to science not by people hoping to find a particular result but by people trying to suppress results that go against their hopes.”
― Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed

“I think the intuition by which we immediately perceive certain things to be the products of purposeful intent is close to the idea that some things are too good to be true.”
― Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed

“Nothing evolves unless it already exists.”
― Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed

“when openness gives way to dogma on any particular scientific claim, we’re left with something more like bad religion than good science.”
― Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed

“The familiar truth is that on matters we care about, we admit the possibility of being wrong only with some reluctance—more as a way of showing ourselves to be reasonable than as a way of encouraging criticism. If and when that concession seems unnecessary, we’re inclined to withdraw it. Then, with the passage of time, we become so comfortable with the absence of open criticism that we’re indignant when someone unaware of the ground rules violates them. The natural progression, in other words, is from reluctant acceptance of criticism in principle to resentment of criticism in practice”
― Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed

“The idea of natural selection as genius in slow motion became to biologists part of the very definition of life, and with this elevated status came immunity from criticism. To question the most central axiom of modern biology was, and is, to excuse oneself from the company of modern biologists.”
― Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed

“Moreover, Darwin clearly identified the crucial point on which this verdict hung. In his words, “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.”
― Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed

“Functional coherence makes accidental invention fantastically improbable and therefore physically impossible. The conclusion is summarized even more succinctly: Invention can’t happen by accident.”
― Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed

“Functional coherence makes accidental invention fantastically improbable and therefore physically impossible.”
― Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed

“Evolution has this catch-22: Nothing evolves unless it already exists.”
― Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed

“Theists, on the other hand, believe the reverse—that the material universe was brought into existence by God, who is not material.”
― Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed

“We had the right answer to our big question back in our childhood, though for many of us it was misplaced somewhere between then and now. Thankfully, what was lost has now been found: We owe our existence to the personal God who understands our existence. We were never alone. Nothing”
― Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed