Courtney

“Molecular genetic evidence (see Chapter 10 for the nature of this kind of evidence) shows that the closest living cousins of whales are hippos, then pigs, then ruminants. Even more surprisingly, the molecular evidence shows that hippos are more closely related to whales than they are to the cloven-hoofed animals”
― Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

“The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried”
― Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

“It would be so nice if those who oppose evolution would take a tiny bit of trouble to learn the merest rudiments of what it is that they are opposing.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

“At the age of three and a half the Taung Child was eaten by an eagle. The evidence is that damage marks to the eye sockets of the fossil are identical to marks made by modern eagles on modern monkeys as they rip out their eyes. Poor little Taung Child, shrieking on the wind as you were borne aloft by the aquiline fury, you would have found no comfort in your destined fame, two and a half million years on, as the type specimen of Australopithecus africanus.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution