Chemist Charles Thaxton makes a compelling argument for Intelligent Design. Reduced to simplest terms, his argument goes like this: The DNA molecule, which is the basis of life, is a message-information coded in a double helix. It's not like a message; it is a message. The molecule itself is an elaborate, complex design that is a message-and when there's a message, an intelligence had to create that message. "We know from experience that when there is a design, there is a designer," Thaxton concludes.

(The Mystery of Life's Origin by Charles B. Thaxton, Walter L. Bradley, and Roger L. Olsen. [Dallas: Lewis and Stanley, 1984].)

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God's creative activity went far beyond the minimum requirements for getting the job done. Butterflies in the rain forest seldom seen by human eye are creatures of breathtaking beauty. The delicate transparency of the man-of-war and the hummingbird's wings are inimitable.

-- LeRoy Koopman

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The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.

-- Edwin Conklin (1863-1952), American zoologist

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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Irish-born English writer

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I could prove God statistically! Take the human body alone. The chance that all the functions of the individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity!

-- George Gallup (1901-1984), American statistician

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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson