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Jacques Monod

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Noun1.Jacques Monod - French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976)


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As for evolutionism, I don't think it is admissible because it is an ideology that denies purpose and holds that everything is due to chance and to necessity, as Jacques Monod affirms in his book Chance and Necessity, proposing atheist materialism.
Speaking about common characteristics of living things, the Nobel prize-winning biochemist Jacques Monod once said, "What is true for [the bacterium Escherichia] coli is true for the elephant.
Nevertheless, the science and argumentation Wilson presents on the sociobiology of religion are formidable, going well beyond the groping ideas that fellow biologist Jacques Monod had pioneered.
 
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