Ben Stein Quotes About Darwinism

Quotes about: Darwinism

• Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe, gravity, thermodynamics, motion, how those originated. It's got some gigantic missing pieces.

  Ben Stein

  Missing, Principles, Pieces

  "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer and Jack Cafferty, transcripts.cnn.com. April 18, 2008.

• Yes, I spent two long years, traveling all over the United States, all over Europe, interviewing many, many, many people who had been thrown out of their academic jobs because they taught that there was a possibility of life coming from something other than Darwinism, who thought that possibly random selection and mutations didn't account for the universe, didn't account for gravity, didn't account for why nobody had ever seen an individual species evolve - no one's ever seen an individual species evolve!

  Ben Stein

  Jobs, Two, Years

  Fox News Documentary, April 14, 2008.

• Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter comes from.

  Ben Stein

  Law, Matter, Physics

• Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We're not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it's called Darwinism .

  Ben Stein

  Believe, America, Asks

  "Friday Five: Actor Ben Stein". Citizen magazine, web.archive.org. April 4, 2008.

• Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.

  Ben Stein

  Mean, Media, Alive

  "Mariah Carey's New Album: First Review" by Roger Friedman, www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2008.

• I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.

  Ben Stein

  Race, Ideas, Racism

• I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.

  Ben Stein

  Thinking, Brilliant, Evolution

• Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science.

  Ben Stein

  Academic Freedom, People, Challenges

• My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution. I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don't think it explains individual species evolution at all well.

  Ben Stein

  Thinking, Feelings, Littles

  "Ben Stein Holds Court". Science and Society, March 31, 2008.

• And there hasn't been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].

  Ben Stein

  Progress, Darwinism

  "Ben Stein on Glenn Beck's show about Intelligent Design". www.youtube.com. November 13, 2007.

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