Quotes by Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory In Crisis

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“The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbabl...”
— Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory In Crisis
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“Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly sm...”
— Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory In Crisis
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“To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million times until it is twenty kilometers in diameter and resembles a giant airship la...”
— Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory In Crisis
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“The theory of phlogiston was an inversion of the true nature of combustion. Removing phlogiston was in reality adding oxygen, while adding phlogiston was actually removing oxygen. The theory was a ...”
— Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory In Crisis
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“Considering the way the prebiotic soup is referred to in so many discussions of the origin of life as an already established reality, it comes as something of a shock to realize that there is absol...”
— Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory In Crisis
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