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Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.

William A. Dembski

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William A. Dembski
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: July 18
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