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60 CONFESSIONS OF THE EVOLUTIONISTS

are structurally complex, arose spontaneously in the same place at the
same time. Yet it also seems impossible to have one without the other.
And so, at first glance, one might have to conclude that life could never,
in fact, have originated by chemical means. 144
Douglas R. Hofstadter, Pulitzer Prize winner and professor of cog-
nitive science and computer science at Indiana University:
How a single egg cell divides to form so numerous differentiated cells,
and the perfect natural communication and the cooperation between
these cells top the events that amaze scientists. 145
Francis Crick is the Nobel Prize-winning evolutionist geneticist
who, together with James Watson, discovered DNA:
An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could
only state that, in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to
be almost a miracle. 146
John Maddox is the former editor
of Nature magazine:
It is disappointing that the origin of
the genetic code is still as obscure as
the origin of life itself. 147
Pierre Grassé is the renowned
French evolutionist and zoologist:
Any living being possesses an enor-
mous amount of "intelligence," very
much more than is necessary to build
the most magnificent of cathedrals.
Today, this "intelligence" is called in-
formation, but it is still the same
Fran cis Crick
thing. It is not programmed as in a
computer, but rather it is condensed
on a molecular scale in the chromosomal DNA or in that of every other or-
ganelle in each cell. This "intelligence" is the sine qua non of life. Where
does it come from? . . This is a problem that concerns both biologists and
philosophers, and, at present, science seems incapable of solving it. 148