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|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=e-FTSHPpuAAC&q=Gould+Adam%E2%80%99s+Navel&dq=Gould+Adam%E2%80%99s+Navel&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GF8OUbjICuSn4ATLi4G4DQ&redir_esc=y
 
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=e-FTSHPpuAAC&q=Gould+Adam%E2%80%99s+Navel&dq=Gould+Adam%E2%80%99s+Navel&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GF8OUbjICuSn4ATLi4G4DQ&redir_esc=y
 
|quote=I well remember something that [[Francis Crick]] said to me many years ago, when my own functionalist biases were strong. He remarked, in response to an adaptive story I had invented with alacrity and agility to explain the meaning of repetitive DNA: ‘''Why do you evolutionists always try to identify the value of something '''before you know how it is made'''''?’
 
|quote=I well remember something that [[Francis Crick]] said to me many years ago, when my own functionalist biases were strong. He remarked, in response to an adaptive story I had invented with alacrity and agility to explain the meaning of repetitive DNA: ‘''Why do you evolutionists always try to identify the value of something '''before you know how it is made'''''?’
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|note=The quote seems to be missing at google books hence the edition obviously matters}}</ref> Szostak provided the following explanation why evolutionists are condemned to make the frequent inferences to evolution of the gap: As they do not feel smart enough to design things, they prefer to resort to alien unknown mechanism of evolution "to do the hard work" and only afterwards they attempt to figure out what happened.<ref>{{cite web |title=Artificial Life Closer Than You Think |author= |publisher=cbsnews; originally The Associated Press|date=February 11, 2009 |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-205_162-3183953.html|quote="We aren't smart enough to design things, we just let evolution do the hard work and then we figure out what happened," Szostak said.}}</ref>
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|note=The quote seems to be missing at google books hence the edition obviously matters}}</ref> Szostak provided the following explanation why evolutionists are condemned to make the frequent inferences to evolution of the gap: As they do not feel smart enough to design things, they prefer to resort to alien unknown mechanism of evolution "to do the hard work" and only afterwards they attempt to figure out what happened.<ref>{{cite web |title=Artificial Life Closer Than You Think |author= |publisher=cbsnews; originally The Associated Press|date=February 11, 2009 |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-205_162-3183953.html|quote="We aren't smart enough to design things, we just let evolution do the hard work and then we figure out what happened," Szostak said.}}</ref> Whenever anyone asserts that this or that organ or organisms developed by means of evolution, the speaker or writer is in fact using a cliché to express his ignorance about what had happened in unobservable past.<ref>{{cite book
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|author=Randal Hedtke
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|title=Secrets of the Sixth Edition
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|publisher=Master Books
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|place=Portland, Oregon
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|year=2010
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|pages=89
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|isbn=978-0-89051-597-6
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|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=gvyHquVubDoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Hedtke+The+secrets+of+the+sixth+edition&source=bl&ots=VQBk7unu95&sig=3-pYZsIj2vzBHgcIbYEpexlVc9s&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FsOGUO2kCIKJ4gS-tYCoBg&redir_esc=y}}</ref>
    
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