Biological evolution Quote by David M. Raup

We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition…

— David M. Raup

And there hasn't been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].

— Ben Stein

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…

— Michael Denton

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

— Ernst Mayr

Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.

— Jack Horner

We didn't evolve through billions of years to remain animals.

— Zoltan Istvan

Given enough time, even evolution evolves.

— Eric Chaisson

We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields…

— Michael Shermer

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.

— Richard Dawkins

Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous…

— Niles Eldredge

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed…

— Ernst Mayr

You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in…

— Charles Jencks