Colour Quote by Richard Dawkins

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was…

— Richard Dawkins

Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have…

— Richard Dawkins

“Every day, hundreds of observations and experiments pour into the hopper of the scientific literature. Many of them don't have much to do with…

— Jerry A. Coyne

Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual…

— Ernst Mayr

We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields…

— Michael Shermer

My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed.....It is not even possible to make…

— Nils Heribert-Nilsson

Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous…

— Niles Eldredge

Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait evolved. For…

— Elliott Sober

As you know, the fossil record includes not only the ancestors of crocodiles and whales, but also the ancestors of human beings. And this,…

— Kenneth R. Miller

Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it…

— Karl Popper

All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are no fossils…

— Richard Dawkins

The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of…

— Richard Dawkins