Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those…

“In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is a historical…

— Jerry A. Coyne

“The second irony of evolutionary biology is that this transubstantiation of natural theology into the grand narrative of natural selection has itself taken the…

— Abigail Lustig

“Oh golly, Brer Fox, your forthright assertion—that evolutionary biology disproves the idea of a creator God—jeopardises the teaching of biology in science class, since…

— Richard Dawkins

"Tiger is a natural kind" and "Tiger is a historical particular" are incompatible with each other, and evolutionary biology provides a reason for favoring…

— Elliott Sober

The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.

— John Maynard Smith

“The great value of the Darwinian evolutionary paradigm is the way it helps us understand how what once was "noise" (e.g., unselected-uncorrelated variation) can…

— Terrence Deacon

Evolutionary biology is crazy because sometimes it seems anybody can draw any conclusion they want.

— Naomi Wolf

"Methodological naturalism" and "metaphysical naturalism" are terms that often surface in the continuing battle between evolutionary biology and creationism/intelligent design. The methodological thesis says…

— Elliott Sober

“Before you can ask 'Is Darwinian theory correct or not?', You have to ask the preliminary question 'Is it clear enough so that it…

— David Berlinski

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how…

— Phillip E. Johnson

Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.

— John Naisbitt

Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus…

— Robert Zubrin

The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as…

— Elliott Sober

This is not to deny that there are versions of theism that do conflict with evolutionary biology. Young Earth Creationism is an example; it…

— Elliott Sober

“Love begins with the stage of subconscious primitive lust and attraction. I’m saying primitive because at this very early stage there is really no…

— Abhijit Naskar