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Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked. Michael Behe | top
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred. Michael Behe | top
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I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works. Jim Cramer | top
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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 | top
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If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens. David Duchovny | top
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We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas. Susan George | top
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We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world. Bruce Jackson | top
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Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy. Phillip E. Johnson | top
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First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence. Phillip E. Johnson | top
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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 | top
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If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe. Seth Lloyd | top
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Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. Trofim Lysenko | top
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Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea. Trofim Lysenko | top
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Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience. Trofim Lysenko | top
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Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology. Trofim Lysenko | top
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Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology. Trofim Lysenko | top
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Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. Ernst Mayr | top
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I think that I could see Darwin having a relationship with Asia. Susan Oliver | top
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Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes. Richard Owen | top
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The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process. Bruce Perens | top
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Darwin (1859) recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular. George G. Simpson | top
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Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances. George C. Williams | top
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. E. O. Wilson | top
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My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. Steven Wright | top
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As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts. Francis Parker Yockey | top