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Quotes from Evolution: A Theory in Crisis — Michael Denton

born 1943 England

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The overriding supremacy of the myth has created a widespread illusion that the theory of evolution was all but proved one hundred years ago . . . Nothing could be further from the truth.

Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1986)

Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10−12gms, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the nonliving world.

Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1986)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Denton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.