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> [ “Darwin’s picture of the history of life “contradict\[ed\] what the animal forms buried in the rocky strata of our earth tell us of their own introduction and succession upon the surface of the globe.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-c-meyer/darwin-s-picture-of-the-history-of-life-contradict-ed-what-the-animal/)

[Stephen C. Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-c-meyer/)

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## More by Stephen C. Meyer

> [“If Darwin is right, Agassiz argued, then we should find not just one or a few missing links, but innumerable links shading almost imperceptibly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-c-meyer/if-darwin-is-right-agassiz-argued-then-we-should-find-not-just-one-or/)

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> [It would be just like programmers to shorten 'the year 2000 problem' to 'Y2K'- exactly the kind of thinking that created this situation in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-c-meyer/it-would-be-just-like-programmers-to-shorten-the-year-2000-problem-to/)

[Stephen C. Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-c-meyer/)

> [The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics of magnetism,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-c-meyer/the-information-contained-in-an-english-sentence-or-computer-software/)

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> [“For many, his reference to the work of a transcendent mind merely demonstrated that he was unable to abandon an outmoded idealistic approach.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-c-meyer/for-many-his-reference-to-the-work-of-a-transcendent-mind-merely/)

[Stephen C. Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-c-meyer/)

> [“What is the great difference,” he wrote, “between supposing that God makes variable species or that he makes laws by which species vary?” A”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-c-meyer/what-is-the-great-difference-he-wrote-between-supposing-that-god/)

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> [The fact remains that the materialistic view is a truncated view of reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-c-meyer/the-fact-remains-that-the-materialistic-view-is-a-truncated-view-of/)

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> [“Agassiz trained an army of able young naturalists who took his method to other universities, and they in turn passed them on to their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-c-meyer/agassiz-trained-an-army-of-able-young-naturalists-who-took-his-method/)

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> [The heart cannot exalt in what the mind rejects.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-c-meyer/the-heart-cannot-exalt-in-what-the-mind-rejects/)

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> [“Those who rejected it wholesale, as Agassiz did, consigned themselves to increasing irrelevance. AGASSIZ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-c-meyer/those-who-rejected-it-wholesale-as-agassiz-did-consigned-themselves/)

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> [“In China,” he said, “we can criticize Darwin, but not the government. In America, you can criticize the government, but not Darwin.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-c-meyer/in-china-he-said-we-can-criticize-darwin-but-not-the-government-in/)

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> [ “Darwin’s picture of the history of life “contradict\[ed\] what the animal forms buried in the rocky strata of our earth tell us of their… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-c-meyer/darwin-s-picture-of-the-history-of-life-contradict-ed-what-the-animal/)

[Stephen C. Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-c-meyer/)

> [“Since the most exquisitely delicate structures, as well as embryonic phases of growth of the most perishable nature, have been preserved from very early…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-c-meyer/since-the-most-exquisitely-delicate-structures-as-well-as-embryonic/)

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> [“As science advanced in the late nineteenth century, it increasingly excluded appeals to divine action or divine ideas as a way of explaining phenomena…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-c-meyer/as-science-advanced-in-the-late-nineteenth-century-it-increasingly/)

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> [Everyone has motives. Let's acknowledge that and get on with the interesting part.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-c-meyer/everyone-has-motives-let-s-acknowledge-that-and-get-on-with-the/)

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