Evolution Quotes

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For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of intellect - a… — Raymond Dart
When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change. — Fred Polak
No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution. — Robert Briffault
Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature....Ultimately, the Darwinian theory of… — Michael Denton
Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our… — Mary Midgley
Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any… — Steven Pinker
Where it is in his own interest, every organism may reasonably be expected to aid his fellows. Where he has no alternative, he submits to… — Michael Ghiselin
Evolution answers some questions but reveals many more questions. Some of these questions at this stage appear to be unanswerable in the light of present… — Barry Price
It looks to me as if Darwinians are like someone who, having observed that tugboats sometimes maneuver ocean liners in tight places by directing high-pressure… — Peter van Inwagen
Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a… — Alan Feduccia
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved… — L. Harrison Matthews
To my mind, the theory of [evolution] does not stand up at all. If living matter is not, then, caused by the interplay of atoms,… — Henry Lipson
Creationists often appeal to the facts of science to support their view, and evolutionists often appeal to philosophical assumptions from outside science. — Jonathan Sarfati
In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism [i.e., logic an… — Michael Denton
There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic form.… — Gerald A. Kerkut
Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a full-fledged alternative to… — Michael Ruse
We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is] mythology… — Robert Shapiro
It's not really a question of who is biased, but which bias is the correct bias with which to be biased! — Jonathan Sarfati
The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000.... The size of this figure… — Harold Morowitz
The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big enough… — Fred Hoyle

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