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30. Philip J. Sampson, Six Modern Myths, 38, citing Jerome J. Langford, Galileo, Science and the Church (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1971), 134.
31. A. N. Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1946), 2, quoted in Philip J. Sampson, Six Modern Myths, 38.
32. “Natural Adversaries?” Christian History, 76 (Volume XXI, No. 4), 44.
33. Gunter D. Roth, Stars and Planets (New York: Sterling, 1998), 89.
34. Pam Spence, general editor, The Universe Revealed (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 40.
35. David Koerner and Simon LeVay, Here Be Dragons (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 5.
36. Ibid., 5–6.
37. Quoted in Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee, Rare Earth, 266.
38. Ibid., 220. For an excellent discussion of the importance of plate tectonics, 191–220.
39. Ibid.
40. See: R. J. Charlson, J. E. Lovelock, M. O. Andrea, and S. G. Warren, “Oceanic phytoplankton, atmospheric sulfur, cloud albedo and climate,” Nature 326 (1987); and R. J. Charlson et al., “Reshaping the theory of cloud formation,” Science 293 (2001).
41. “The Genesis of Ores,” Scientific American, May, 1991.
42. Gonzalez noted that one of Saturn’s moons, Prometheus, comes close, but it’s shaped like a potato and results in eclipses that last less than a second.
43. See Michael J. Denton, Nature’s Destiny, 117.
44. Henry Petroski, Invention by Design (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996), 30.
45. See: www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Campus/4764/OKeefeObitEOS.pdf (accessed June 1, 2003).
46. John A. O’Keefe, “The Theological Impact of the New Cosmology” in: Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992), 122.
47. Astronomer Hugh Ross makes an interesting related observation. He cites seven reasons to believe why it’s likely that micro-organisms from Earth have ended up on Mars. Based on “the transportability and survivability of Earth’s life forms,” he said that “there are many reasons to believe that millions of Earth’s minute creatures have been deposited on the surface of Mars and other solar system planets.” He said Mars’s inhospitable environment would make germination of such life unlikely, and “thus ‘adult’ organisms should be quite rare on Mars.” He added: “The discovery of microbial life and creatures perhaps as large as nematodes on Mars—a discovery we can expect as technology continues to advance—will probably be touted as proof of naturalistic evolution, when in truth it proves nothing of the kind. It will prove something, however, about the amazing vitality of what God created.” See Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos (Colorado Springs: Navpress, 1993), 144–46.
48. John A. O’Keefe, “The Theological Impact of the New Cosmology,” in Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers, 118 (emphasis added).
Chapter 8: The Evidence of Biochemisty: The Complexity of Molecular Machines
1. Bruce Alberts, “The Cell as a Collection of Protein Machines,” Cell 92 (February 8, 1998).
2. Franklin M. Harold, The Way of the Cell (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 205.
3. Ibid., 329.
4. Michael Behe, Darwin’s Black Box (New York: Touchstone, 1996), back cover.
5. Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species (New York: New York University Press, sixth edition, 1998), 154.
6. For a more in-depth response to McDonald, see Michael J. Behe, “A Mousetrap Defended,” available at www.arn.org/docs/behe/mb_mousetrapdefended.htm (accessed November 2, 2002).
7. Kenneth R. Miller, “The Flaw in the Mousetrap,” Natural History (April 2002).
8. See: Edward M. Purcell, “The Efficiency of Propulsion by a Rotating Flagellum,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 94 (October 1997), available at www.impa.br/~jair/pnas.pdf (accessed July 1, 2003).
9. See: Joe Lorio, “Four of a Kind,” Automobile (August, 2003).
10. Andew Pomiankowski, “The God of the Tiny Gaps,” New Scientist (September 14, 1996).
11. Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, 338.
12. See: Michael J. Behe, Darwin’s Black Box, 90–97.
13. Kenneth