Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich August von Hayek

I can have little patience with those who oppose ... the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the phenomena of life because of certain moral consequences which at first seem to follow from these theories, and still less with those who regard it as irrelevant or impious to ask certain questions at all. By refusing to face the facts , the conservative only weakens his own position.

Charles Darwin

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

Gary L. Francione

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

Stephen Jay Gould

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.

Roy Spencer

I finally became convinced that the theory of creation actually had a much better scientific basis than the theory of evolution, for the creation model was actually better able to explain the physical and biological complexity in the world...

Steven Pinker

Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.

Michael Polanyi

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

George Will

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

David Barton

You've GOT to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.