David M. Raup

There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information,…

— David M. Raup

I doubt if there is any single individual within the scientific community who could cope with the full range of [creationist] arguments…

— David M. Raup

It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this…

— David M. Raup

Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.

— David M. Raup

In the beginning, there were bacteria.... [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through…

— David M. Raup

Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think…

— David M. Raup

Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every…

— David M. Raup

We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of…

— David M. Raup

The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and…

— David M. Raup

A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is…

— David M. Raup

250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for…

— David M. Raup

The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity. ...Thus, the procedure is far…

— David M. Raup

A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until…

— David M. Raup

There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and…

— David M. Raup