The phrase 'the fossil record' sounds impressive and…

“The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families,…

— Gareth J. Nelson

“No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into…

— Henry Gee

“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

“E www ... intelligent design people! They're just buck-toothed, Bible-pushing nincompoops with community-college degrees who're trying to sell a gussied-up creationism to a cretinous…

— Jonathan Wells

“[...] if truth be told, evolution hasn’t yielded many practical or commercial benefits. Yes, bacteria evolve drug resistance, and yes, we must take countermeasures,…

— Jerry A. Coyne

“Genetics might be adequate for explaining microevolution, but microevolutionary changes in gene frequency were not seen as able to turn a reptile into a…

— Scott F. Gilbert

“I am absolutely convinced of the lack of true scientific evidence in favour of Darwinian dogma. Nobody in the biological sciences, medicine included, needs…

— Raul O. Leguizamon

“I recently asked more than seventy eminent researchers if they would have done I their work differently if they had thought Darwin's theory was…

— Philip S. Skell

“The ideology and philosophy of neo-Darwinism which is sold by its adepts as a scientific theoretical foundation of biology seriously hampers the development of…

— Vladimir L. Voeikov

“For those scientists who take it seriously, Darwinian evolution has functioned more as a philosophical belief system than as a testable scientific hypothesis. This…

— James A. Shapiro

“All disciplines of science are built on the causality of the relationships governing related events. Yet the theory of evolution is built upon the…

— T.H. Janabi

“Throughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has changed into another... Since there is…

— Alan H. Linton

“I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper…and I clearly related it to paleontology. Darwin argued that the fossil record is…

— Ernst Mayr

“An evolutionary perspective of our place in the history of the earth reminds us that Homo sapiens sapiens has occupied the planet for the…

— Richard E. Leakey

“To understand Darwin's work, you have to distinguish between his theory of descent and his theory of natural selection. THe full name of the…

— Lee Spetner