“The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.” FormSecretRecordsTreeEvolutionEvidenceTradeExtremesDataBranchesReasonablePersistFossilsTextbooksInferenceRarityPaleontologyCreation ScienceCreation And Evolution Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information. The failure of a particular claim usually records a local error, not the bankruptcy of a central theory. [...] If I mistakenly identify your father's brother as your own dad, you don't become genealogically rootless and created de novo. You still have a father; we just haven't located him properly.” IfsStillsFatherPowerfulRecordsHavensInformationParticularBrotherTheorySourceEvolutionDadClaimsIndependentStructureErrorsLocalsObservationBankruptcyUnifiedInference Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record as though they were evidence against evolution” NeedsUseCasesRecordsEvolutionEvidenceGapsFossilsParadoxical Book:The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution Source: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
“Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.” IfsCommonStudyDoubtRecordsEvolutionEvidenceProofStrongestAncestorDnaFossilsLiving ThingsDescentLingeringDna Evidence Author:Francis Collins
“The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the records are from outer space.” EndsSpaceRecordsEvolutionBandPhasesOuter Space Author:Ariel Rechtshaid
“In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read by some fundamentalist searching for straws to prop up his prejudices, let me state categorically that all my experience (such as it is) has led me to an unqualified acceptance of evolution by natural selection as a sufficient explanation for what I have seen in the fossil record.” ShouldStillsBookStatesFactsScienceNaturalCasesRecordsAcceptanceEvolutionLet MePrejudiceExplanationSufficientSelectionFossilsFringeLunaticNatural SelectionPropsStrawsFundamentalistUnqualified Author:D. V. Ager
“The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.” FormSecretRecordsEvolutionTradeExtremesPersistFossilsRarityPaleontologyCreation ScienceCreation And EvolutionGradualism Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“My record, Evolution, is really about me evolving as an artist and trying a few new things. There's a song called, Road Worn, which is about spending so much time on the road and is a lot more jazzy sounding than most of my other music.” TryingArtistSongRecordsEvolutionSpendingEvolveNew ThingsWorn Author:Eliot Lewis