Theory Of Evolution Quotes

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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

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

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved

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

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

There's a joke in everything, the trick is finding it. The best compliment a joke can get is what Huxley said about Darwin's theory of evolution - 'Why didn't I think of that?'

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

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

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

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

If we want to sum up the theory of evolution by natural selection in two words, which have great relevance for all societies and businesses, we should simply remember: diversity works.

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

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

Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.

The theory of evolution explains to us what our ancestry has been. It does not explain away our worth. Why should we be afraid to learn more about what we are?

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.

There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to deceive and enrage.

The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.

But I think schools also ought to be fair to all views. Because, frankly, Darwinism is not an established scientific fact. It is a theory of evolution, that's why it's called the theory of evolution.

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to be a doctor. GAWD, parents haven't changed much.

I think it's a theory... the theory of evolution and I don't accept it as a theory.

It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.

Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.

The sense of alienation that inspires wonder, awe and fear in us is enough of a proof that life does not belong to the planet Earth.

The textbook in question in the infamous Scope's Monkey Trial was partially written by the Harvard educated white supremacist, Charles B. Davenport.