Biology Quote by Phillip E. Johnson

I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

— Michael Behe

In the beginning, there were bacteria.... [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through a continuous…

— David M. Raup

“There are no detailed Darwinian accounts for the evolution of any fundamental biochemical or cellular system, only a variety of wishful speculations [Article :…

— James A. Shapiro

In terms of their basic biochemical design....no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any other system,…

— Michael Denton

The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as…

— Elliott Sober

The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept of evolution,…

— Hans Adolf Krebs

Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning natural selection.…

— Elliott Sober

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

Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives

— Michael Behe

And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry…

— Jeff Hawkins

This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance of biology…

— W. R. Thompson

An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of…

— Ernst Haeckel