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14. Ibid., 147.
15. See: Michael J. Behe, “A True Acid Test: Response to Ken Miller,” available at: www.arn.org/docs/behe/mb_trueacidtest.htm (accessed July 3, 2003).
16. Not all philosophers and scientists agree with the falsification test. “The role of falsification in science is not clear,” said philosopher J. P. Moreland. “Nevertheless, falsification is certainly relevant to science. Whether it constitutes a necessary or sufficient condition for science, however, is quite another matter.” See: J. P. Moreland, Christianity and the Nature of Science, 32–35.
17. National Academy of Sciences, Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1999), 25.
18. Pamela R. Winnick, interview with Michael Behe, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (February 8, 2001).
19. J. Ratzinger, In the Beginning: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1986), 56.
20. J. A. Shapiro, “In the Details . . . What?” National Review (September 16, 1996).
21. Allan Sandage, “A Scientist Reflects on Religious Belief,” Truth: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Christian Thought, Volume 1 (1985). Available at www.clm.org/truth/1truthtml (accessed July 31, 2000).
Chapter 9: The Evidence of Biological Information: The Challenge of DNA and the Origin of Life
1. George Sim Johnson, “Did Darwin Get It Right?” The Wall Street Journal (October 15, 1999).
2. Quoted in Stephen C. Meyer, “Word Games: DNA, Design, and Intelligence,” in William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner, Signs of Intelligence, 102.
3. Nicholas Wade, “A Revolution at 50; DNA Changed the World. Now What?” New York Times (February 25, 2003).
4. See: Nancy Gibbs, “The Secret of Life,” Time (February 17, 2003).
5. Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, 334.
6. Unlocking the Mystery of Life, produced by Illustra Media, available at: www.illustramedia.com.
7. Ibid.
8. Quoted in Larry Witham, By Design, 172.
9. The Discovery Institute is a think tank that deals with a wide variety of projects in the fields of technology, science and culture, legal reform, national defense, the environment and the economy, the future of democratic institutions, transportation, religion and public life, foreign affairs, and other areas. See: www.discovery.org.
10. See: Fazale R. Rana and Hugh Ross, “Life from the Heavens? Not This Way,” Facts for Faith, Quarter 1, 2002, an account of a 1999 international conference on the origin of life, where the mood among Darwinists was described as full of frustration, pessimism, and desperation.
11. See: Bernd-Olaf Küppers, Information and the Origin of Life (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990), 170–72.
12. Henry Quastler, The Emergence of Biological Organization (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964), 16.
13. Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (New York: D. Appleton, 1887), 202.
14. Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, 260.
15. See: J. Brooks, Origins of Life (Sydney: Lion, 1985).
16. Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, 261.
17. See: Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mount Improbable (New York: W. W. Norton, 1996).
18. See: S. W. Fox, editor, The Origins of Prebiological Systems and of their Molecular Matrices (New York: Academic Press, 1965), 309–15.
19. For a summary of other arguments against the “RNA first” hypothesis, see: “Stephen C. Meyer Replies,” First Things (October 2000).
20. Robert Shapiro, Origins: A Skeptic’s Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth (New York: Summit, 1986), 189.
21. Ibid.
22. See: Gerald F. Joyce, “RNA Evolution and the Origins of Life,” Nature 338 (1989), 217–24, and Robert Irion, “RNA Can’t Take the Heat,” Science 279 (1998), 1303.
23. Jay Roth, “The Piling of Coincidence on Coincidence,” in: Henry Margenau and Roy Abraham Varghese, editors, Cosmos, Bios, Theos (Chicago: Open Court, 1992), 199.
24. Interview in Unlocking the Mystery of Life.
25. See: Michael Polanyi, “Life’s Irreducible Structure,