Darwinism Quotes

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has bee...

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different di...

But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a ...

I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization ...

Origin of man now proved.—Metaphysics must flourish.—He who understands baboon would do more towards...

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will al...

But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the ...

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been forme...

Let it be admitted at once, mournful as the admission is, that every instinct in his intelligence we...

Mere lack of evidence, of course, is no reason to denounce a theory. Look at intelligent design. The...

And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

In the physical constitution of an organized being, that is, a being adapted suitably to the purpose...

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no v...

A physicist that I know commented that many other scientific disciplines, such as geology, anthropol...

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that n...

I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called c...

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are ...

I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in s...

Evolution provides a scientific foundation for the core values shared by most Christians and conserv...

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the w...

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulga...

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antiso...

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought o...

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a...

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because th...

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And...

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least f...

That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunch...

I remember one incident which bears upon this part of the treatise. The gentleman who gave it to me ...

I remember one incident which bears upon this part of the treatise. The gentleman who gave it to me ...

I remember one incident which bears upon this part of the treatise. The gentleman who gave it to me ...

I remember one incident which bears upon this part of the treatise. The gentleman who gave it to me ...

I remember one incident which bears upon this part of the treatise. The gentleman who gave it to me ...

I remember one incident which bears upon this part of the treatise. The gentleman who gave it to me ...

I remember one incident which bears upon this part of the treatise. The gentleman who gave it to me ...

I remember one incident which bears upon this part of the treatise. The gentleman who gave it to me ...

The Darwinian approach to sex is often attacked as being antifeminist, but that is just wrong. Indee...

I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific wor...

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understandi...

Even if we have a reliable criterion for detecting design, and even if that criterion tells us that ...

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committin...

To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organ...

Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbro...

The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science ...

Regardless of one's point of view, it's quite easy to see that Darwinism is not in the same league a...