Theory Of Evolution Quotes - Page 2

• But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record.

  Charles Darwin

  Lying, Believe, Numbers

  Charles Darwin (2012). “On the Origin of the Species and The Voyage of the Beagle”, p.162, Graphic Arts Books

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• I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

  Charles Darwin

  Motivational, Science, Curiosity

  "Got a problem? Our Evolutionary Agony Aunt can help" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2009.

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  A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities. Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.

  Pope Francis

  Running, Risk, Magic

  "Pope Francis: 'Evolution ... is not inconsistent with the notion of creation'". www.ncronline.org. October 27, 2014.

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

  Pope Francis

  Creation, Wands, Evolve

  "Pope Francis: 'Evolution ... is not inconsistent with the notion of creation'". www.ncronline.org. October 27, 2014.

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• What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not.

  Rick Santorum

  Teaching, Thinking, Views

  "Rick Santorum, 'It Takes a Family'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 4, 2005.

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• The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Criticism, Classroom, Worst

  "Time To End The Censorship". eagleforum.org. December 29, 2004.

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• To my mind, the theory of [evolution] does not stand up at all. If living matter is not, then, caused by the interplay of atoms, natural forces, and radiation [i.e., time, chance, and chemistry], how has it come into being? I think, however, that we must go further than this and admit that the only acceptable explanation is creation.

  Henry Lipson

  Thinking, Mind, Doe

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• I finally became convinced that the theory of creation actually had a much better scientific basis than the theory of evolution, for the creation model was actually better able to explain the physical and biological complexity in the world.

  Roy Spencer

  World, Able, Creation

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• I think that the theory of evolution is the most unscientific, faith-based, fundamentally brainless idea that ever had the misfortune to come out of a human mind. To compare it to true science is a joke. There is nothing even slightly scientific about it.

  Ray Comfort

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

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• The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.

  Eoin Colfer

  Dams, Cheese, Made

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• I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.

  John Henry Newman

  Almighty, Inconsistent, Creator

  John Henry Newman, Ian Turnbull Ker, Thomas Gornall, Gerard Tracey, Francis J. McGrath (1961). “Letters and Diaries: The controversy with Gladstone, Jan. 1874-Dec. 1875”

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• More cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution. . .than to anything else.

  Martin Lings

  Religious, Loss, Religion

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• Consequently, theories of evolution which, in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider the mind as emerging from the forces of living matter, or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter, are incompatible with the truth about man. Nor are they able to ground the dignity of the person.

  Pope John Paul II

  Philosophy, Men, Scary

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• A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.

  Trofim Lysenko

  Ideas, Principles, Example

  "Soviet Biology". Report by Lysenko to the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, www.marxists.org. 1948.

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• A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.

  Jacques Monod

  Thinking, Curious, Aspect

  "On the Molecular Theory of Evolution" by Jacques Monod, 1974.

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• Natural Selection is not Evolution. Yet, ever since the two words have been in common use, the theory of Natural Selection has been employed as a convenient abbreviation for the theory of Evolution by means of Natural Selection, put forward by Darwin and Wallace. This has had the unfortunate consequence that the theory of Natural Selection itself has scarcely ever, if ever, received separate consideration.

  Ronald Fisher

  Mean, Two, Use

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• In contrast to creation, Darwinism does not have a single piece of evidence demonstrating the theory of evolution. Its proponents don't have any fossil evidence, of the kind which they should be able to put forward.

  Harun Yahya

  Doe, Pieces, Able

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

  Gary L. Francione

  Mental Illness, Characteristics, Inconsistent

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• The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

  John Ambrose Fleming

  World, Manifestation, Inadequate

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• The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must be opposed because it leads to rampant immorality, on both the personal and political scales. The basic cause of this immorality is atheism.

  Elizabeth S. Anderson

  Religious, Believe, Political

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• The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory -is it then a science or a faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation - both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof.

  L. Harrison Matthews

  Special, Peculiar, Facts

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• The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.

  Louis Agassiz

  Mistake, Evolution, Theory

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• When the theory of evolution destroyed the picture of God as the supreme Creator, confidence in God as the all-powerful Father of man fell with it, although many were able to combine a belief in God with the acceptance of the Darwinian theory.

  Erich Fromm

  Powerful, Father, Acceptance

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

  Michael Polanyi

  Creative, Existence, Evolution

  "Transcendence And Self-Transcendence". Book by Michael Polanyi, 1970.

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