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A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do.

Francis Crick

You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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Existence Science Yourself
A busy life is a wasted life.
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Busy Life One Liner Wasted Time
Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.
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Determination Listen Sound Structure Try
If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place.
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Correction Group Place Reading Right Start
Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.
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Action Biology Problem
It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
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Difficult Live World
Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.
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Life Science Understand
A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.
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Detail Evidence Ideas Ourselves Science Type
If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.
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Bad Evidence Foundation Goodness Legal Logic
We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.
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Human Kind Man Reproduction Run
An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.
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Honesty Knowledge Life Man Miracle Satisfaction State
How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.
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Division Group Science
It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.
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Biology Code Direction Evidence Science
Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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Enemy Knowledge One Liner
Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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Believe Earth Help Need. Mental Old
In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
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Body Death Education People Soul Time

A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do.

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