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These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.


Jerry A. Coyne


#conclusion-before-evidence #confessions-of-the-darwinists #conjecture #darwin #darwinism

Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He who does not possess the force to secure his Lebensraum in this world, and, if necessary, to enlarge it, does not deserve to possess the necessities of life. He must step aside and allow stronger peoples to pass him by.


Adolf Hitler


#nazism #social-darwinism #life

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree...The difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection , though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered subversive of the theory.


Charles Darwin


#confessions-of-the-darwinists #conjecture #darwin #darwinism #darwinist-confessions

Genetics might be adequate for explaining microevolution, but microevolutionary changes in gene frequency were not seen as able to turn a reptile into a mammal or to convert a fish into an amphibian. Microevolution looks at adaptations that concern the survival of the fittest, not the arrival of the fittest... The origin of species — Darwin’s problem — remains unsolved.


Scott F. Gilbert


#confessions-of-the-darwinists #darwin #darwinism #darwinist-confessions #evolution

Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken.


Michael Behe


#again #being #biology #black #boxes

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.


Susan George


#21st century #century #competitive #crude #darwinian

Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an organism. I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change [which] led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.


Lynn Margulis


#evolution #macro-evolution #macroevolution #speciation #change