Kenneth R. Miller Quotes

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• No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.
• The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.
• The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.
• We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth
• There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory
• The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually
• The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question
• We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate
• Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom
• The American creationist movement has entirely bypassed the scientific forum and has concentrated instead on political lobbying and on taking its case to a fair-minded…
• Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing our lives of…
• What evolution tells us is that we are part of a grand, dynamic, and ever-changing fabric of life that covers our planet. Even to a…
• Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.
• Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.
• From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical…
• Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are…
• The anti-evolution forces have been searching for a new strategy that would accomplish the same end. That purpose is, if not to get evolution out…
• America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer…
• Most scientists who are religious look for God in what science does understand and has explained. So the way in which my view is different…
• The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.

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