We have stopped natural selection from purifying the…

Nature stopped being natural decades ago.

— Jamais Cascio

The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

— Charles Darwin

“Fears were learned, but they were also inherited. Natural Selection. Run from the lion. Jump away from the tiny, poisonous insects. They exist for…

— Megan Miranda

“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

It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is…

— Charles Darwin

Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective reality, perhaps…

— Jesse Bering

Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower"…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintelligent processes can make seemingly-designed systems, ones of the complexity…

— Michael J. Behe

The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the…

— Anonymous

I believe in the theory of evolution, but I believe as well in the allegorical truth of creation theory. In other words, I believe…

— Christopher Langan

“Once, on a walk by a river- Eskdale in low reddish sunlight, with a dusting of snow- his daughter quoted to him an opening…

— Ian McEwan

. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most…

— Henri Poincare

The right to live does not connote the right of each man to reproduce his kind ... As we lessen the stringency of natural…

— Karl Pearson

“there is every reason to suppose that people living in agrarian societies were subject to intense forces of natural selection. But what traits were…

— Nicholas Wade