Common Descent Quotes
- I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it. — Michael Behe
- I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form? — Michael Behe
- So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of the world, and… — Isocrates
- As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that is still very… — Michael Behe
- Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the… — J. Philippe Rushton
- anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural… — Ernst Mayr