If it really is true that [the human] is merely the inevitable culmination of an improbably chemical reaction...involv[ing]'merely material' atoms, then the fact that he has been able to formulate the idea of 'an improbable chemical reaction' and to trace himself back to it is remarkable indeed.  That chemicals which are 'merely material' should come to understand their own nature is a staggering supposition.

Joseph Wood Crutch, The Great Chain of Life

Quoted in Terryl & Fiona Givens, The God Who Weeps, pg. 11