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“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”
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“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
“As long as we refuse to accept that our pride is the source of our unrest, we will continue to wither on the vine. "Humility, that low, sweet root / From which all heavenly virtues shoot." —Thomas Moore”
― Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul
― Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul
“All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort. It spoils Health, dismounts the Mind, and unmans Men: It reveals Secrets, is Quarrelsome, Lascivious, Impudent, Dangerous and Mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.”
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“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
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