Abbreviations Quote by Ronald Fisher

The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been…

— Anonymous

The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for…

— Douglas J. Futuyma

Natural selection is not evolution.

— Ronald Fisher

Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature....Ultimately, the Darwinian theory…

— Michael Denton

As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.

— Richard Dawkins

“I have a little urge to all the rational thinkers in the world, both scientists and non-scientists. Because of the fact that many of…

— Abhijit Naskar

“When evolution is turned into an All-encompassing Theory explaining absolutely everything we believe, feel, and do as the product of natural selection, then we…

— Timothy J. Keller

In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence…

— E. O. Wilson

Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.

— Pope Francis

“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an organism. I…

— Lynn Margulis

The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its Creator.

— Samuel Wilberforce

The study of evolution is an evolution in itself.

— Hendrik Poinar