{"id":3923,"date":"2008-02-09T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/02\/quotes-for-evolution-weekend-francisco-j-ayala\/"},"modified":"2008-02-09T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T20:37:00","slug":"quotes-for-evolution-weekend-francisco-j-ayala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/02\/quotes-for-evolution-weekend-francisco-j-ayala.html","title":{"rendered":"Quotes for Evolution Weekend (Francisco J. Ayala)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The following quotes are from the leading Biology professor <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/francisco-j-ayala.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Francisco J. Ayala<\/a>, who is also a Christian. His book <i>Darwin and Intelligent Design<\/i> (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006) is the source of the following quotes, which are sure to brighten your Evolution Weekend!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#660000\">\u201cThere is probably no other notion in any field of science that has been as extensively tested and as thoroughly corroborated as the evolutionary origin of living organisms\u201d<\/span> (p.40).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#660000\">\u201cIt is now possible to assert that gaps of knowledge in the evolutionary history of living organisms no longer exist\u2026The virtually unlimited evolutionary information encoded in the DNA sequence of living organisms allows evolutionists to reconstruct all evolutionary relationships leading to present-day organisms, with as much detail as desired\u201d<\/span> (p.41).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#660000\">\u201cThe missing link is no longer missing. 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