The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it … - George Gaylord Simpson

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Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

George Gaylord Simpson

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.

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Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.

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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.

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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. 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.

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I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.

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Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind

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