Francis Crick

"What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery"

"Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved." p138 emphasis added.

[This is one of Crick's most-quoted sentences. It is cited by Turek on p82 of Stealing from God. ] Cited by Meyer on p165 of "Return of the God Hypothesis"

"Life Itself"

"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, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going." p88.

Cited by Michael Denton on p131 of "The Miracle of the Cell".

Cited by Neil Thomas on p56 of "Taking Leave of Darwin".

Cited by Steven Meyer on p181 of "Return of the God Hypothesis".

Cited by John Lennox on p119 of "Cosmic Chemistry".

"Of Molecules and Man"

"The ultimate aim of the modern development of biology is, in fact, to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry." p 10.

"The Astonishing Hypothesis - The Scientific Search for the Soul"

"The Astonishing Hypothesis is that 'You', your joys and your sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. " p 3.

Cited by Frank Turek in "Stealing from God", pg 40, and he has a good page of comments on the implications of this statement.

"You are largely the behaviour of a vast population of neurones." p93 [Note that this weakens the above statement.]