Atheism Quote by Richard Leakey

Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too…

— David Pilbeam

For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living…

— Kenneth R. Miller

“THE GREATEST MYSTERY OF ALL TIME… THE HISTORY OF HUMAN ORIGINS… WILL BE REVEALED. 70,000 years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We…

— A.G. Riddle

“If the world and all its species of animals and plants were created at once by some supernatural force or event, we might expect…

— Bill Nye

To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for the origin…

— J. Anderson Thomson Jr

I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson…

— James Lovelock

It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled…

— Georges Cuvier

“For a more knowing and informed world, we are becoming forever more complicit based on the evidence presented to us, regarding the demise of…

— Alastair Agutter

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs.…

— Jared Diamond

My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“The story of our human lineage is continually enlarged, almost daily, by discoveries from physical anthropology, archeology, and genetics.”

— Richard J. Borden