Lack of understanding Quote by Jerry A. Coyne

The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its Creator.

— Samuel Wilberforce

“Natural selection has destroyed the proof for the miraculous specific intervention of the Creator. But it has left us with the marvel of the…

— Karl Popper

“Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of nature.”

— Carl Sagan

The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but…

— Paul Bloom

The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that…

— Henry M. Morris

There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and other large…

— John Tyler Bonner

Nowadays theologians aren't quite so straightforward as Paley. They don't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently designed by a…

— Richard Dawkins

“It is therefore scientifically correct to say that 'natural selection has been proved to be an agent of evolutionary change' - we can, in…

— E.F. Schumacher

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

— Charles Darwin

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of…

— Phillip E. Johnson

As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg,…

— Thomas Huxley

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

— Ronald Fisher