"It is so efficient that all the information . . . necessary to specify the design of all the species of organisms which have ever existed on the planet . . . could be held in a teaspoon and there would still be room left for all the information in every book ever written."
— DNA

January 1, 1970

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Michael Denton, molecular biologist and "intelligent design" creationist, said of the genetic code (DNA) inside a cell, in Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, p. 334. Quoted in The Watchtower magazine, October 1, 1994.