“The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle.”
― Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
― Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
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“No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way... To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story—amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.”
― In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life
― In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life
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