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• A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until…
• 250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for…
• I doubt if there is any single individual within the scientific community who could cope with the full range of [creationist] arguments…
• We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of…
• Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think…
• The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity. ...Thus, the procedure is far…
• A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is…
• There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information,…

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