Controversy Quote by Richard Thompson

The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy

— John Gay

My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories.…

— Richard Rohr

“Whenever I think there's a perfect pattern, further reading and study reveal an exception. Whenever I want to say "only" or "always", someone or…

— Anonymous

“Darwin’s ideas are devices for generating data. Darwin’s theory opens possibilities for inquiry; Agassiz’s closes them.”

— Louis Menand

The question is: exactly how did life get here? Was it by natural selection and random mutation or was it by something else? Everybody…

— Michael Behe

“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

With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail rather than…

— Peter Singer

“For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

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 starting point of Darwin 's theory of evolution is precisely the existence of those differences between individual members of a race or species…

— Karl Pearson

The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory,…

— Trofim Lysenko

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.

— Kirk Cameron