David M. Raup Quotes
- A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.
- 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.
- I doubt if there is any single individual within the scientific community who could cope with the full range of [creationist] arguments without the help…
- 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 than…
- Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think it is safe…
- The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity. ...Thus, the procedure is far from ideal and…
- 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…
- There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is but…