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Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.


Ernst Mayr


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It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.


Ernst Mayr


#evolutionary #me #phenomenon #rates #seems

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.


Phillip E. Johnson


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First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.


Phillip E. Johnson


#amount #certain #complex #darwinian #darwinian theory

Darwin (1859) recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.


George G. Simpson


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The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.


George G. Simpson


#confused #darwinian #darwinian theory #distinction #evolution

Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of the fittest.'


Lewis Thomas


#about #amiable #arrangement #because #biology

I think that I could see Darwin having a relationship with Asia.


Susan Oliver


#could #darwin #having #i #i think

In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is a historical science, laden with history's inevitable imponderables. We evolutionary biologists cannot generate a Cretaceous Park to observe exactly what killed the dinosaurs; and, unlike "harder" scientists, we usually cannot resolve issues with a simple experiment, such as adding tube A to tube B and noting the color of the mixture.


Jerry A. Coyne


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

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.


Michael Crichton


#brain #conjecture #consciousness #darwinism #evolution