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Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus.
William A. Dembski
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William A. Dembski
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: July 18
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If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.
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Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages like the ribosome, and the origin of molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum, and intelligent design will die a quick and painless death.
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Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.
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