Ancestor Quote by Michael Behe

I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?

— Michael Behe

Evolutionary biologists often appeal to parsimony when they seek to explain why organisms "match" with respect to a given trait. For example, why do…

— Elliott Sober

As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that is still…

— Michael Behe

Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record,…

— Francis Collins

When you drive to the grocery store, your intention is not to change the world, it just happens to have that impact. So we've…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Hamilton had a complaint. "Why did you have to tell the cops I'm your boyfriend? That's gross, Amy. We're related!" Amy was disgusted. "We…

— Gordon Korman

“our most recent common ancestor—a worm-like creature”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

“We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This…

— Bryan Sykes

“and do not speak to me, please, of African Eve or LUCA, the three-and-a-half-billion-year-old blob of goo that was our Last Universal Common Ancestor.…

— Salman Rushdie

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Darwin’s theory, laid out in On the Origin of Species in 1859, suggested that people and apes shared a common ancestor, and, coupled with…

— David Grann

“Every two species that evolved from a common ancestor, such as horses and donkeys, were at one time just two populations of the same…

— Yuval Noah Harari