1,799 Quotes About Evolution

All living species on our planet are intelligent, for they have managed to survive, communicate, learn, build and grow amidst the changing backdrop of nature.

Is our intelligence the result of our brain wanting to understand all that our eyes can see?

Im Vergleich mit hochentwickelten Wesen besaßen die Menschen vielleicht eine kümmerliche Intelligenz und einen primitiven, rohen Geist. Aber es war alles, was sie hatten. Alles, was sie der Evolution hatten abringen können. Sie konnten nur ihr Bestes tun. Ihren unvollkommenen Verstand schärfen und sich den Schwierigkeiten stellen, die ihnen auf ihrem Weg begegneten.

Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you.

When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he is a “Newtonian” or of a biologist when asked if he is a “Pasteurian.

I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.

The controversy between Darwinism and intelligent design has the characteristics of major scientific revolutions in the past. Darwinists are losing power because they treat with contempt the very people on whom they depend the most: American taxpayers. The outcome of this scientific revolution will be decided by young people who have the courage to question dogmatism and follow the evidence wherever it leads.

If Darwinists are opposed to mentioning scientific problems with their view, you would think they would be even more opposed to mentioning intelligent design. Yet Darwinists have been discussing ID in public school science classes for years... Biology textbooks have been mentioning intelligent design since the late 1990s—but only to misrepresent and disparage it.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.