Accidents Quote by Thomas Nagel

It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the…

— Thomas Nagel

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot…

— Michael Behe

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

— Ronald Fisher

In the last few decades, mankind has sinned terribly against the law of natural selection. We haven't just maintained life unworthy of life, we…

— David Klinghoffer

“All disciplines of science are built on the causality of the relationships governing related events. Yet the theory of evolution is built upon the…

— T.H. Janabi

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

— Richard Dawkins

People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance." And the…

— Richard Dawkins

“Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character.”

— Charles Darwin

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own…

— John Maynard Smith

When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way. Spontaneous generation…

— George Wald

We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both…

— Douglas Kennedy