43 Quotes About Theory-of-evolution

The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

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?

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

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

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

Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.

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.

The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what we see in the fossil record. It is gradualism that we must reject, not Darwinism.