Natural selection Quote by Richard Dawkins

It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.

— Richard Dawkins

“A deep understanding of Darwinism teaches us to be wary of the easy assumption that design is the only alternative to chance”

— Richard Dawkins

“Darwinism is not a theory of random chance. It is a theory of random mutation plus non-random cumulative natural selection. . . . Natural…

— Richard Dawkins

People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance." And the…

— Richard Dawkins

“Common sense says that the amazing complexity of life cannot arise out of a random process. The neo-Darwinians use clever arguments to show why…

— Lee Spetner

“If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that we have…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Natural selection is anything but random.

— Richard Dawkins

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Ronald Fisher

It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by…

— Ronald Fisher

“Darwin- I think the theory is: out of 'chaos' arises something that resembles 'design'. But it's all random.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations…

— Arthur Koestler