Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every generation - people who keep challenging convention and thinking up new ideas for the sheer hell of it… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian than it is. This probably comes from the oversimplification inevitable in secondary sources: low-level textbooks… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
I doubt if there is any single individual within the scientific community who could cope with the full range of [creationist] arguments without the… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this reasoning is… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time. — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
In the beginning, there were bacteria.... [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through a continuous… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think it is… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every generation -… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for by Darwin. — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity. ...Thus, the procedure is far from ideal… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
![“There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is but a tiny fraction of the diversity that [according to the theory] actually lived in the past. There are well over a million species living today and . . [it is]…” quote by David M. Raup](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/37b/david-m-raup-33751_animal_there-are-about-250-000-different-specie_264230.jpg)
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