54 Quotes by Kenneth R. Miller

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano’s expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

If taken at face value, the miraculous explanation would tell us that science is not worth the trouble, that it will never yield the answers we seek, and that nature will forever be beyond all human understanding. Sterile and nonproductive in its consequences, the claim of miracle would put a lid on curiosity, experimentation, and the human creative imagination.

We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate.

America’s got a Darwin problem – and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they ‘believe in evolution.’

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom.

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question.

For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earth's true past was dug up in abundance.