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Hoimar Von Ditfurth is a German professor of neurology and a

well-known evolutionist science writer:
The question of how the division of a fertilized egg leads to the birth of
countless cells differentiated from each other in every possible respect
heads the list of those that leave scientists scratching their heads.
Although conceptual frameworks capable of giving a rough analysis of
what is going on have been established, the phenomenon as a whole still
represents a collection of unanswerable questions. 353
Richard Dawkins is a British zoologist and one of the leading con-
temporary evolutionists:
Evolution is very possibly not, in actual fact, always gradual. But it must
be gradual when it is being used to explain the coming into existence of
complicated, apparently designed objects, like eyes. For if it is not grad-
ual in these cases, it ceases to have any explanatory power at all. Without
gradualness in these cases, we are back to miracle, which is simply a syn-
onym for the total absence of explanation. 354
Prof. Russell Doolittle is professor of biochemistry at the
University of California in San Diego:
How in the world did this complex and delicately balanced process
evolve?... The paradox was, if each protein depended on activation by an-
other, how could the system ever have arisen? Of what use would any
part of the scheme be without the whole ensemble? 355

From a letter that Sir Charles Lyell, a renowned mid-19th century
geologist, wrote to Darwin:
Pages would be required thus to state an objection and remove it. It
would be better, as you wish to persuade, to say nothing. 356
A letter to Darwin from Asa Gray, an American botanist of the 19th
century and one of his best friends:
Well, that seems to me the weakest point on the book is the attempt to ac-
count for the formation of organs, the making of eyes, &c., by natural se-
lection. Some of this reads quite Lamarckian. 357
Hoimar Von Ditfurth:
When nature found an eye socket, it was confronted by the same dilem-
ma. This eye, which emerged as a quite unexpected step with the succes-