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Some interesting comments by James D. Watson:

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/wat0int-8

" One should see life as consisting of a script, which is DNA, and the actors, which are largely proteins, which are described in the text to great detail. And so you've got a system of a play where you've got a script and you've got the actors, and you could say, "Well, who is more important? Shakespeare or Gielgud? Whose playing now?" And everyone'll go back and say, "The actors are very important but scripts are more important." So we're getting the script for life and, you know, every species has its own script.."

"Evolution only occurs by creating variants, and a lot of variation is harmful to the individual who carries it. So evolution is not a kind thing, and we're all products of evolution. Well society, you know, says we're products of God. We're products of evolution and it's very different. You know, a just God wouldn't have done anything which didn't have a purpose. But I think like most biologists, we don't think there's anyone to answer our prayers and change the course of destiny. So, I mean, scientists and doctors, you know, have this right of change -- have this ability to change the future. In that sense we are the gods, and people are, of course, afraid of evil gods, and then for some people, you know, my way of speaking right now is just totally inappropriate and sacrilegious, and you know, in some countries they'd shoot me, or just --You know, saying there's no one up there in the heaven telling us what to do, but I don't think there is. "

So many misdirections, where to start? ... To make comments such as you quoted shows the author has the arrogance to believe he knows what is the overall scheme of this universe and the spiritual component he chooses to deny. Sadly, his eternal destiny remains a phantasm while in the grips of such pride of self ... and Satan exploited that human trait in the Garden don'tchaknow. The more things change, the more we remain the same, vulnerable to the same guile revealed in the Garden. I wonder, do such people think their spirit will drift freely, in eternal peace, if they continue to squelch the still small voice of God within?