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==Quotations==
==Quotations==
Maxwell inscribed over the door of the famous Cavendish Physics laboratory in Cambridge the words: ''"Great are the works of the Lord; they are pondered by all who delight in them."''<ref name="LENNOX">{{cite book
|author=John C. Lennox
|title=God's undertaker. Has science buried God?
|publisher=Lion Hudson
|location=Oxford, England
|year=2009
|pages=67-69, 186, 204
|url=
|isbn=978-0-7459-5371-7
|quote=This is the key issue: there is a great difference between God and gods, and between a God who is the Creator and a god who is the universe, as James Clerk Maxwell well knew when he had inscribed over the door of the famous Cavendish Physics laboratory in Cambridge the words: 'Great are the works of the Lord; they are pondered by all who delight in them.'}}</ref>
Maxwell wrote:
Maxwell wrote:
:No theory of evolution can be formed to account for the similarity of molecules, for evolution necessarily implies [[continuous change]], and the molecule is incapable of growth or decay, of generation or destruction. None of the processes of Nature, since the time when Nature began, have produced the slightest difference in the properties of any molecule. We are therefore unable to ascribe either the existence of the molecules or the identity of their properties to any of the causes which we call natural. <ref>http://www.sonnetusa.com/bio/maxbio.pdf</ref>
:No theory of evolution can be formed to account for the similarity of molecules, for evolution necessarily implies [[continuous change]], and the molecule is incapable of growth or decay, of generation or destruction. None of the processes of Nature, since the time when Nature began, have produced the slightest difference in the properties of any molecule. We are therefore unable to ascribe either the existence of the molecules or the identity of their properties to any of the causes which we call natural. <ref>http://www.sonnetusa.com/bio/maxbio.pdf</ref>
:Hence the kind of speculation with which we have become so familiar under the name of theories of evolution is quite inapplicable to the case of molecules. <ref>James Clerk Maxwell, "The Theory of Heat", London, Longman's, Green, and Co., 1871. http://www.archive.org/stream/theoryofheat00maxwrich/</ref>
:Hence the kind of speculation with which we have become so familiar under the name of theories of evolution is quite inapplicable to the case of molecules. <ref>James Clerk Maxwell, "The Theory of Heat", London, Longman's, Green, and Co., 1871. http://www.archive.org/stream/theoryofheat00maxwrich/</ref>
It should also be noted that Maxwell wrote these words before atomic theory was widely accepted. Maxwell of course knew nothing of the chemical composition of molecules like proteins and DNA, nor did he know about sub-atomic or nuclear processes, all of which contradict his claims that "there is no generation or destruction, and no variation ..." among molecules and atoms.
It should also be noted that Maxwell wrote these words before atomic theory was widely accepted. Maxwell of course knew nothing of the chemical composition of molecules like proteins and DNA, nor did he know about sub-atomic or nuclear processes, all of which contradict his claims that "there is no generation or destruction, and no variation ..." among molecules and atoms.
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==Bibliography==