Creationists reject Darwin's theory of evolution on the…

“Charles Darwin himself recognized this problem and feared it when he wrote hauntingly: “Within me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of…

— Mark Clark

“Regardless of one's point of view, it's quite easy to see that Darwinism is not in the same league as the hard sciences. For…

— William A. Dembski

“Darwin’s ideas are devices for generating data. Darwin’s theory opens possibilities for inquiry; Agassiz’s closes them.”

— Louis Menand

The question is: exactly how did life get here? Was it by natural selection and random mutation or was it by something else? Everybody…

— Michael Behe

“Darwin’s theory, laid out in On the Origin of Species in 1859, suggested that people and apes shared a common ancestor, and, coupled with…

— David Grann

With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail rather than…

— Peter Singer

“For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

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

“The starting point of Darwin 's theory of evolution is precisely the existence of those differences between individual members of a race or species…

— Karl Pearson

The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory,…

— Trofim Lysenko

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.

— Kirk Cameron

There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.

— Richard Thompson

“Darwin’s theory of evolution, at least in its author’s eyes, dealt solely with the natural world. Yet it was as attractive to political theorists…

— Nicholas Wade

“In Paley's famous illustration, the adaptation of all the parts of the watch to the function, or purpose, of showing the time, is held…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

It is good to keep in mind ... that nobody has ever succeeded in producing even one new species by the accumulation of micromutations.…

— Richard Goldschmidt