Development Quote by Robert Jastrow

No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms.

— G. Ledyard Stebbins

All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of…

— Hugh Miller

Wherever we look at the living biota … discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequent…The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New species usually…

— Ernst Mayr

Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation.

— Robert Jastrow

The known fossil record fails to document a single example of phyletic evolution i.e., a species becoming a new species accomplishing a major morphological…

— Steven M. Stanley

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces…

— Jacques Monod

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

— Charles Darwin

“Evolutionists have been digging fossil strata for about 140 years looking for these hypothetical forms. They have found millions of invertebrate fossils and millions…

— Harun Yahya

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion…

— Robert Jastrow

An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which…

— Anonymous

There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No paleontologist..denies that…

— David Berlinski