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The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination. -- John Ambrose Fleming
One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity. -- Brian Eno
A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin 's Origin (this as joined with its supplement Of Man), and also rate as undoubtedly one of the greatest books of the twentieth century -- Ronald Fisher
We completely reject the theory of evolution. -- John Ambrose Fleming
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. -- Steven Wright
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues. -- Michael Behe
The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. -- Phyllis Schlafly
Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence. -- Michael Polanyi
Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself. -- Walter Lang
The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world. -- John Ambrose Fleming
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. -- Gary L. Francione
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant. -- Ben Stein
The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution. -- Ray Comfort
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun. -- Richard Dawkins
A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas. -- Trofim Lysenko
Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity. -- Donald Johanson
Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sounds to biologists as absurd as denying relativity does to physicists. -- Leonard Mlodinow
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind. -- E. O. Wilson
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory. -- Jimmy Swaggart
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. -- Richard Dawkins
Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact. -- Bill Nye
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 Gaylord Simpson
The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake. -- Louis Agassiz
Neither evolution nor creation qualifies as a scientific theory. -- Duane Gish
Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese. -- Eoin Colfer
The problem Creationists identify is with the word 'theory', not with the case for evolution -- Lance Parkin
I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector. -- John Henry Newman
A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. -- Jacques Monod
The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese. -- Eoin Colfer
I think it's a theory, the theory of evolution and I don't accept it as a theory. -- Ron Paul
Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings. -- Richard Dawkins
In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements. -- C. S. Lewis
Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.' -- Marc Maron
Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution? -- George Will
Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act. -- Steven Pinker
More cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution. . .than to anything else. -- Martin Lings
Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution. -- Rudolf Steiner
I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain things. -- Eugenie Scott
It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism, -- Antony Flew
Theory of Evolution (Summary)First, there were some amoebas. Deviant amoebas adapted better to the environment, thus becoming monkeys. Then came Total Quality Management. -- Scott Adams
Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false. -- Richard Dawkins
Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun. -- Ernst Mayr
Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds. -- Alan I. Leshner
If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction. -- Judith Hayes
The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of Germany conform to the theory of evolution. -- Arthur Keith
Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies in the population. -- John Maynard Smith
[Evolution Theory] is the motivating factor for guys like Hitler and Stalin and George Bush, by the way, who is a Satan worshipper, like we don't know that. -- Kent Hovind
There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to deceive and enrage. -- Edward Humes
Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science. -- Karl Popper
Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all. -- Herbert Spencer
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. -- James D. Watson

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