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• Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study…
• It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
• All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be…
• I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.
• On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist…
• Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.
• A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.
• There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual…
• Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and…
• Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores…
• According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one…
• Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as…

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