#darwin

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

— Ernst Mayr

#certain #contingent #darwin #evolution #merely

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

— Ernst Mayr

#evolutionary #me #phenomenon #rates #seems

I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe. ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#authors #being #creators #darwinian #demoted

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

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far. ↗

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

#appears #been #curious #darwinian #darwinian theory

The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#biologists #darwinian #darwinian theory #evolutionary #explains

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

Regardless of one's point of view, it's quite easy to see that Darwinism is not in the same league as the hard sciences. For instance, Darwinists will often compare their theory favorably to Einsteinian physics, claiming that Darwinism is just as well established as general relativity. Yet how many physicists, while arguing for the truth of Einsteinian physics, will claim that general relativity is as well established as Darwin’s theory? Zero. ↗

— William A. Dembski

#einstein #evolution #general-relativity #hard-science #macro-evolution

The phrase 'the fossil record' sounds impressive and authoritative. As used by some persons it becomes, as intended, intimidating, taking on the aura of esoteric truth as expounded by an elite class of specialists. But what is it, really, this fossil record? Only data in search of interpretation. All claims to the contrary that I know, and I know of several, are so much superstition. ↗

— Gareth J. Nelson

#darwin #darwinism #evolution #fossil-record #fossils

I am absolutely convinced of the lack of true scientific evidence in favour of Darwinian dogma. Nobody in the biological sciences, medicine included, needs Darwinism at all. Darwinism is certainly needed, however, in order to pose as a philosopher, since it is primarily a worldview. And an awful one, as George Bernard Shaw used to say. ↗

— Raul O. Leguizamon

#darwin #darwinism #evolution #george-bernard-shaw #macro-evolution