All disciplines of science are built on the causality of…

“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

“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

“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

“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

“[...] 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

“The phrase 'the fossil record' sounds impressive and authoritative. As used by some persons it becomes, as intended, intimidating, taking on the aura of…

— Gareth J. Nelson

“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 fact that our current planetary evolution is built upon one creature having to physically consume another to survive shows our deep limitation.”

— Richard Rudd

It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

— Alan Perlis