Michael Denton Quotes

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.

To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything has to be precisely defined on this knife edge of improbability. [Y]ou have to see the hands of a creator who set the parameters to be just so because the creator was interested in something a little more complicated than random particles.

My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a single designer and not many designers?

We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

How does a cosmos without a bearded, bathrobed God in the sky pull off all the things that a bearded, bathrobed guy in the sky was supposed to have pulled off? If there was no God who said 'Let there be light,' where did we get all that light?

I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

I find that easier to accept than this all happened out of nothing.

Undirected natural processes like the Darwinian mechanism are incapable of generating the specified complexity that exists in biological organisms … the natural sciences need to leave room for design.

In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.

I don’t want to offend anyone of faith, but I think that science has some more compelling explanation than a divine creator

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, and no good—nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.

Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.

Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?

It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.

No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design.

There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.

Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's Pipe. Far from terminating the vicious regress, God aggravates it with a vengeance.