No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
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There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.
Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.
I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most of us. These were great naturalists; people I would admire for their knowledge of natural science given the time.
We completely reject the theory of evolution.
In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.
Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
No species is more important than others.
Darwin didn't walk around the Galapagos and come up with the theory of evolution. He was exploring, collecting, making observations. It wasn't until he got back and went through the samples that he noticed the differences among them and put them in context.