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Kenneth R. Miller

Kenneth Raymond Miller (born July 14, 1948) is an American cell biologist and molecular biologist who is currently Professor of Biology and Royce Family Professor for Teaching Excellence at Brown University. Miller's primary research focus is the structure and function of cell membranes, especially chloroplast thylakoid membranes. Miller is a co-author of a major introductory college and high school biology textbook published by Prentice Hall since 1990. Miller, who is Roman Catholic, is particularly known for his opposition to creationism, including the intelligent design (ID) movement. He has written two books on the subject: Finding Darwin's God, which argues that acceptance of evolution is compatible with a belief in God; and Only a Theory, which explores ID and the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case as well as its implications in science across America.

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What evolution tells us is that we are part of a grand, dynamic, and ever-changing fabric of life that covers our planet. Even to a person of faith, in fact especially to a person of faith, an understanding of the evolutionary process should only deepen their appreciation of the scope and wisdom of the creator's work.

Appreciation, Fabric Of Life, Gratitude, Planet, Scope, Tells

Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.

Baseball, Certainty, Girl, Growing Up, Sense, Things

America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they 'believe in evolution. '

According, Anniversary, Believe, Birth, Poll, Taken

Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing our lives of meaning, it instills an appreciation for the beautiful, enduring, and ultimately triumphant fabric of life that covers our planet. Understanding that doesn't demean human life - it enhances it.

Appreciation, Beautiful, Covers, Gratitude, Life, Understanding

The anti-evolution forces have been searching for a new strategy that would accomplish the same end. That purpose is, if not to get evolution out of the schools altogether, then at least undermine it as much as possible in the minds of students.

School, Mind, Purpose, Same, Possible, Strategy

A true conservative is on the side of science.

Conservative, Science, Side, Sides, True

The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.

Glasses, Pasture, Piano, Storm, World

Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom

Christian, Eager, Jesus, Science, Thinking

Most scientists who are religious look for God in what science does understand and has explained. So the way in which my view is different from the creationists or intelligent design proponents is that I find knowledge a compelling reason to believe in God. They find ignorance a compelling reason to believe in God.

Believe, Ignorance, Look, Religious, Scientists, Understand

We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology and paleontology that the whole of life has been a process of change and transformation. From biology we know that our tissues are not impenetrable reservoirs of vital magic, but a stunning matrix of complex wonders, ultimately explicable in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. With such knowledge we can see, perhaps for the first time, why a Creator would have allowed our species to be fashioned by the process of evolution.

Geology, Impenetrable, Magic, Process Of Change, Tissues, Transformation

I wouldn't want the federal government dictating how I use my cameras, every community has their own issues and their own dynamics.

Community, Dictating, Government, Issues, Use

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

Dna, Language, Narrative, Stories, Story, Written

We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate

Believe, Climate, Ice

Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.

Agnostic, Biology, Conservative, Students

Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.

Epic, Stories, Evolution, Life, Centre, Respect

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

Acoustics, Expressive, Instrument, Music, Piano, Range

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

Air, Mean, Music, Truths, Wood

For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earths true past was dug up in abundance.

Believe, Demanded, Diversity, History, Past, Possible

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

God, God And Nature, Ifs, Nature, Science, Transcends

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually

Argument, Design, Dover, Intelligent, Scientifically