"If IDers eschew all attempts to provide a naturalistic explanation for life, they abandon science altogether. There is no such thing as the supernatural or the paranormal. There is only the natural, the normal, and mysteries we have yet to explain."
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Michael Shermer, Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design, p. 53
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