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I'd love to meet Darwin. He caused such controversy over whether God created the earth in six days or whether we evolved over time. I'd love to discuss that with him - what a fantastic conversation!

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type, most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.

Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things like the iguanas of the Galapagos, even though they were primitive compared to your average Englishman.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

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.