"A number of well-understood mechanisms, including single gene……" — Kenneth R. Miller
"A number of well-understood mechanisms, including single gene mutations, produce changes that qualify as macroevolution. These include heterochronic mutations that alter structures by changing growth rates, homeotic mutations that change the identities of whole body parts, and paedomorphosis, which converts juvenile stages directly to adult ones."
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31 Quotes by Kenneth R. Miller
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No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.
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The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.
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The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of…
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We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth
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There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory
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The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually
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The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science…
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We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the…
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Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the…
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The American creationist movement has entirely bypassed the scientific forum and has concentrated instead on political lobbying and on taking…
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Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far…
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What evolution tells us is that we are part of a grand, dynamic, and ever-changing fabric of life that covers…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
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