#intelligent

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design. ↗

— Robert J. Sawyer

#chance #coincidenc-e #fine-tuning #id #intelligent-design

How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly? ↗

— C.R. Strahan

#arrogance #folly #intelligent-men #intelligence

Ewww... intelligent design people! They're just buck-toothed, Bible-pushing nincompoops with community-college degrees who're trying to sell a gussied-up creationism to a cretinous public! No need to address their concerns or respond to their arguments. They are Not Science. They are poopy-heads. There. I just saved you the trouble of reading 90 percent of the responses to the ID position... This is how losers act just before they lose: arrogant, self-satisfied, too important to be bothered with substantive refutation, and disdainful of their own faults... The only remaining question is whether Darwinism will exit gracefully, or whether it will go down biting, screaming, censoring, and denouncing to the bitter end. — Tech Central Station contributor Douglas Kern, 2005 ↗

— Jonathan Wells

#darwinism #douglas-kern #evolution #id #intelligent-design

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 small, weighing less than 10-12 gms, 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. ↗

— Michael Denton

#biology #factory #id #intelligent-design #irreducible-complexity

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played. ↗

— June Allyson

#dramatic #dramatic role #ever #first #i

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.' ↗

— John Abbott

#afraid #answer #anything #ashamed #ask

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission. ↗

— Alvin Adams

#convinced #dealing #effectiveness #greatest #greatest importance

The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately. ↗

— Catherine Bell

#being #best #best part #business #ethical

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#be grateful #grateful #i #intelligent #public

When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind. ↗

— Johannes Kepler

#cause #id #intelligent-design #kepler #naturalism