Michael Denton cytaty

Michael Denton – brytyjsko-australijski biochemik i pisarz. W 1973 roku M. Denton otrzymał tytuł doktora z biochemii na King’s College London. Napisał kilka książek, do których odwołują się zwolennicy inteligentnego projektu, pseudonaukowego poglądu, wedle którego „pewne obserwacje początku wszechświata i świata żywego są lepiej wytłumaczalne przez inteligentną przyczynę, niż przez przypadkowe procesy, takie jak dobór naturalny”. Wikipedia

✵ 25. Sierpień 1943

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Michael Denton: Cytaty po angielsku

“There can be no question that Darwin had nothing like sufficient evidence to establish his theory of evolution.. . . His general theory, that all life on earth had originated and evolved by a gradual successive accumulation of fortuitous mutations, is still, as it was in Darwin’s time, a highly speculative hypothesis entirely without direct factual support and very far from that self-evident axiom some of its more aggressive advocates would have us believe.. . . One might have expected that a theory of such cardinal importance, a theory that literally changed the world, would have been something more than metaphysics, something more than a myth.”

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Michael Denton książka Evolution: A Theory in Crisis

Źródło: Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1986), p. 69, 77, 358

“Darwin’s model of evolution. . . , being basically a theory of historical reconstruction,. . . is impossible to verify by experiment or direct observation as is normal in science. . . Moreover, the theory of evolution deals with a series of unique events, the origin of life, the origin of intelligence and so on. Unique events are unrepeatable and cannot be subjected to any sort of experimental investigation.”

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Michael Denton książka Evolution: A Theory in Crisis

Źródło: Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1986), p. 75

“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.”

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Michael Denton książka Evolution: A Theory in Crisis

Źródło: Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1986), p. 250

“The raising of the status of Darwinian theory to a self-evident axiom has had the consequence that the very real problems and objections with which Darwin so painfully laboured in the Origin have become entirely invisible. Crucial problems such as the absence of connecting links or the difficulty of envisaging intermediate forms are virtually never discussed and the creation of even the most complex of adaptations is put down to natural selection without a ripple of doubt.”

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Michael Denton książka Evolution: A Theory in Crisis

Źródło: Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1986), p. 77

“Molecular biology has also shown that the basic design of the cell system is essentially the same in all living systems on earth from bacteria to mammals. In all organisms the roles of DNA, mRNA and protein are identical. The meaning of the genetic code is also virtually identical in all cells. The size, structure and component design of the protein synthetic machinery is practically the same in all cells. In terms of their basic biochemical design, therefore no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any other system, nor is there the slightest empirical hint of an evolutionary sequence among all the incredibly diverse cells on earth.”

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Michael Denton książka Evolution: A Theory in Crisis

Źródło: Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1986), p. 250

“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.”

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Michael Denton książka Evolution: A Theory in Crisis

Źródło: Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1986), p. 77