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"Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man."
"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."
"Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction."
"He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material."
"Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences."
"I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it."
"Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms."
"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."
"Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely."
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