Behalf Quote by Tom Bethell

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

— G. Ledyard Stebbins

Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives

— Michael Behe

No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents…

— Louis Pasteur

[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record,…

— Francis Collins

Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is clear that…

— Richard Smalley

There aren't sufficient scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution, and it deals with the origins of man, which is more from a…

— Scott Pruitt

The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to be a…

— Charles Darwin

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

— Pat Buchanan

I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

— Michael Behe

All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that it's true.…

— Stephen Jay Gould

There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does.

— Richard Dawkins