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• It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
• I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.
• Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread,…
• Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study…
• All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be…
• 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.

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