To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernat…

Richard Dawkins
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To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2015). The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company
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