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“The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men as husbands, or of parent cloistering their sons but not their daughters to protect their sons' virtue, or when cultural distributions for preferences concerning physical attractiveness, earning power, relative age and so on show as many cultures with bias in one direction as in the other.”

“Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by reason, but his important decisions have already been made: what kind of person he will marry, how many children he will have, what kind of bed he will die in... It is incredible to think, at first, that man's fate, all his nobility and all his degradation, is decided by a child no more than six years old, and usually three... (but) it is very easy to believe by looking at what is happening in the world today, and what happened yesterday, and seeing what will happen tomorrow.”

“Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any more than do explanations that appeal to upbringing.”

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Author:Steven Pinker

“Where it is in his own interest, every organism may reasonably be expected to aid his fellows. Where he has no alternative, he submits to the yoke of communal servitude. Yet given a full chance to act in his own interest, nothing but expediency will restrain him from brutalizing, from maiming, from murdering his brother, his mate, his parent, or his child. Scratch an 'altruist' and watch a 'hypocrite' bleed.”

May Children Given Parent Interest Chance Watches Brother Evolution Fellows Expected Aids Alternatives Mates Submit Organisms Scratches Hypocrite Servitude Yoke Expediency

Author:Michael Ghiselin

“Evolution answers some questions but reveals many more questions. Some of these questions at this stage appear to be unanswerable in the light of present scientific knowledge. In common parlance: `The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”

Knows Light Answers Common Stage Evolution Scientific Knowledge

Author:Barry Price

“It looks to me as if Darwinians are like someone who, having observed that tugboats sometimes maneuver ocean liners in tight places by directing high-pressure streams of water at them, concludes that he has discovered the method by which the liners cross the Atlantic.”

Ifs Looks Sometimes Water Evolution Ocean Crosses Pressure Method Streams

Author:Peter van Inwagen

“Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.”

Modern Evolution Bird Flight Feathers

Author:Alan Feduccia

“The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory -is it then a science or a faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation - both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof.”

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Author:L. Harrison Matthews

“Creationists often appeal to the facts of science to support their view, and evolutionists often appeal to philosophical assumptions from outside science.”

Facts Views Support Evolution Philosophical Appeals Assumption

Author:Jonathan Sarfati

“In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism [i.e., logic an observation], and contrary to what is widely assumed by evolutionary biologists today, it has always been the anti-evolutionists [i.e creationist], not the evolutionists, in the scientific community who have struck rigidly to the facts and adhered to a more strictly empirical approach... It was Darwin the evolutionist who was retreating from the facts.”

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Author:Michael Denton

“There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic form. This theory can be called the 'general theory of evolution,' and the evidence which supports this is not sufficiently strong to allow us to consider it as anything more than a working hypothesis.”

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Author:Gerald A. Kerkut

“Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. I am an ardent evolutionist and an ex-Christian, but I must admit that in this one complaint - ...and Mr. Gish is but one of many to make it - the literalists are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution today.”

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Author:Michael Ruse

“We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is] mythology rather than science.”

Has Beens Facts Situation Theory Evolution Evidence Contrary Accepted Mythology

Book:Origins: a skeptic's guide to the creation of life on earth

Source: Origins: a skeptic's guide to the creation of life on earth

“It's not really a question of who is biased, but which bias is the correct bias with which to be biased!”

Evolution Bias Biased

Author:Jonathan Sarfati

“The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence.”

“There is something outrageous about such a huge body of evidence being put together, then being confirmed in all kinds of other scientific disciplines, particularly genetics, and having other people just sort of deny it for reasons that have nothing to do with truth.”

People Kind Reason Body Together Huge Evolution Discipline Evidence Deny All Kinds Outrageous Genetics

Author:Matthew Chapman

“I have been a biologist for a long time, and I hope I never stop getting shivers in my spine when I think about the beauty of how we come to know things in biology. Biologists make predictions, then they go out into the field or the lab to see if their predictions hold up. When hundreds of predictions of this sort are fulfilled, a theory reaches the point where it becomes certain, at least on a broad level. And that is where we are with evolution.”

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Author:Darrel R. Falk

“At any rate, if evolution turns out to be true, then the Christian should embrace it as one dedicated to following the truth wherever it leads. This might mean reworking his interpretation of Genesis on the subject-much like Christians have had to rework their interpretation of biblical passages referring to the sun rising and setting, the earth not moving, or the earth resting on foundations.”

“My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed.....It is not even possible to make a caricature of an evolution out of paleobiological facts...The idea of an evolution rests on pure belief.”

Years Ideas Facts Belief Evolution Pure Experiments Caricatures

Author:Nils Heribert-Nilsson

“250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for by Darwin.”

World Animal Support Evolution Plant Species Museums Unfolding Plants And Animals

Author:David M. Raup

“The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.”

Trying Can Do Evolution Prove Scientist Doctrine Pathetic

Author:Robert Andrews Millikan

“A growing number of respectable scientists are defecting from the evolutionist camp.....moreover, for the most part these "experts" have abandoned Darwinism, not on the basis of religious faith or biblical persuasions, but on strictly scientific grounds, and in some instances, regretfully.”

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Author:Wolfgang Smith

“One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom, a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance and natural causes which can be accepted on the basis of fact and not faith has not been written.”

Facts Earth Causes Natural Chance Written Evolution Bases Currents Contrary Accepted Scenarios Describing Genesis Origin Of Life

Author:Hubert Yockey

“Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too slippery, for it to be able to mold our theories. Rather the theories are more statements about us and ideology than about the past. Paleontology reveals more about how humans view themselves than it does about how humans came about, but that is heresy.”

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Author:David Pilbeam

“I shall discuss the broad patterns of hominoid evolution, an exercise made enjoyable by the need to integrate diverse kinds of information, and use that as a vehicle to speculate about hominoid origins, an event for which there is no recognized fossil record. Hence, an opportunity to exercise some imagination.”

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Author:David Pilbeam

“Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It may be claimed that the theory of descent is lacking, therefore, in the most essential feature that it needs to place the theory on a scientific basis, this must be admitted.”

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Book:Evolution and adaptation

Source: Evolution and adaptation

“Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study.”

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Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian system that is of any great influence, and that, as a whole, the theory is not only unproved, but impossible, the ignorant, half-educated masses have acquired the idea that it is to be accepted as a fundamental fact.”

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Author:Thomas Dwight

“The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith which is necessary to have when one encounters the great mysteries of religion....The only alternative is the doctrine of special creation, which may be true, but irrational.”

May Certain Study Mystery Special Creation Evolution Doctrine Being True Alternatives Encounters Irrational Paleontology

Author:Louis T. Moore

“Evolution is faith, a religion.”

Evolution

Author:Louis T. Moore

“Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism into the Nether regions, and I'm quite sure that Freud, Marx and Darwin are commiserating one with the other in the dark dungeon where discarded gods gather.”

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Author:David Berlinski

“When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer to give. Faith has given way to agnosticism. Meanwhile, though our faith in evolution stands unshaken we have no acceptable account of the origin of species.”

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Author:William Bateson

“It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.”

Evolution Definitions Statements Observation Inherent

Author:George Gaylord Simpson

“It's impossible by micro-mutation to form any new species.”

Form Impossible Evolution Species Mutation

Author:Richard Goldschmidt

“Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.”

Evolution Incredibles

Author:John Ambrose Fleming

“There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No paleontologist..denies that this is so. It is simply a fact, Darwin's theory and the fossil record are in conflict.”

Should Facts Form Records Theory Evolution Conflict Deny Gaps Fossils Graveyard

Author:David Berlinski

“I doubt if there is any single individual within the scientific community who could cope with the full range of [creationist] arguments without the help of an army of consultants in special fields.”

Ifs Helping Individual Community Doubt Special Fields Evolution Argument Army Range Consultants Creationist

Author:David M. Raup

“Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists. At times this has led to scientific ideas...being advanced with a tenacity which so exceeds their intrinsic worth that one can only suspect the operation of psychological forces lying very much deeper than the usual academic desire of a theorist to support his or her theory.”

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Author:Christopher Isham

“It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.”

Kind Cases Evolution Arise Soup Primeval

Author:A. E. Wilder-Smith

“The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together. Each part of a living thing depends on all its other parts to function. How does each part know? How is each part specified at conception? The more one learns of biochemistry the more unbelievable it becomes unless there is some type of organizing principle-an architect.”

“A further aspect I should like to discuss is what I call the practice of infinite escape clauses. I believe we developed this practice to avoid facing the conclusion that the probability of self-reproducing state is zero. This is what we must conclude from classical quantum mechanical principles as Wigner demonstrated”

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Author:Sidney W. Fox

“Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation of life are so tiny as to require a 'miracle' for spontaneous generation tantamount to a theological argument.”

Wells Generations Evolution Argument Miracle Notion Contrary Tiny Rely Spontaneous Probability Formation Theological Creationism

Author:Chandra Wickramasinghe

“A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution.”

Ideas Evolution Inherent Impossibility Inspection

Author:Nils Heribert-Nilsson

“...man is a musical being. His origin is in the spoken Word. By sound was he sustained and by music he evolved. One day he will recognize music as a vital factor in the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual evolution of the whole human race.”

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Book:Music: the keynote of human evolution

Source: Music: the keynote of human evolution

“It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.”

Effects Evolution All Things Preserves Almighty

Author:Martin Luther

“If God is to create or to preserve a creature, God must be present and must make and preserve God's creation both in its innermost and outermost aspects.”

Ifs Creation Evolution Creatures Aspect Preserves Serving God God's Creation

Author:Martin Luther

“God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself.”

Divine Evolution Creatures Divine Nature

Author:Martin Luther

“God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.”

Fields Evolution Garden Wilderness

Author:Martin Luther

“But the power of God cannot be so determined and measured, for it is uncircumscribed and immeasurable, beyond and above all that is or may be. On the other hand, it must be essentially present at all places, even in the tiniest tree leaf.”

Tree Evolution Leafs Power Of God

Author:Martin Luther

“Oh, what thoughts man might have had about the fact that God is in all creatures, and so might have reflected on the power and the wisdom of God in even the smallest flowers!”

Flower Evolution Creatures Smallest

Author:Martin Luther

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