The Quote Mine Project
Or, Lies, Damned Lies and Quote Mines
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Introduction
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Introduction
Difficult to establish phylogeny -- Ayala and Valentine
Fossil record has disappointingly few gradual series -- Futuyma
Sudden diversification of multi-cellular life -- Eldredge
Little evidence for phyletic gradualism -- Gould, Luria, and Singer
Difficult to find fossils intermediate in morphology and stratigraphic position -- Cracraft
Taxa appear suddenly -- Eldredge
Species overlap in time -- Stanley
Fossils cloud attempts at phylogeny -- Fortey
No empirical evidence for sustained trends -- Gould and Eldredge
No phylum level designs since Cambrian -- Valentine and Jablonski
Trends are after the fact render of evolutionary history -- Eldredge
Punctuated equilibria rests on shaky ground -- Ricklefs
Fossils do not prove that evolution occurs -- Kitts
Paleontologists paid enormous price for Darwin's argument -- Gould
Paleontologists cheat in reconstructing animals -- Bengtsons
Multicellular animals appear with a bang -- Gould
Fossils caused Darwin more grief than joy -- Gould
Major groups appear suddenly -- Futuyma
Taxa appear suddenly and without intermediates -- Eldredge
Every paleontologist knows taxa appear suddenly -- Simpson
The gaps are real -- Wesson
Groups abruptly appear and disappear -- Newell
Contradiction of Darwin's gradualism and paleontology -- Mayr
Fossils do not reveal gradual transformations -- Bowler
An uneven or jerky fossil record -- Raup
The major problem in proving evolution is the fossil record -- Czarnecki
Little evidence of modification within species -- Smith
The principle problem is stasis -- Williamson
Members of a biota remain stable -- Eldredge
Fossil species remain unchanged -- Woodroff
Paleontologists have long known about stasis and abrupt appearance -- Gould
Paleontologists have been searching in vain -- Eldredge
Evolutionary interpretation is a circular argument -- Kemp
Ladder of evolution is not borne out by evidence -- Newell
Nothing much happens to most species -- Gould
Non-change was tacitly acknowledged -- Gould
Paleontologists knew it but preferred to ignore it -- Eldredge and Tattersall
We have many gaps in key areas -- McGowan
Absence of gradual intermediate transitional forms -- Eldredge
Punctuationists and gradualists both agree the gaps are real -- Dawkins
Fossil record has precious little intermediate forms -- Gould
Transitional forms are inordinately scarce -- Brouwer
No need to apologize for the fossil record -- Neville
Fossil record flatly fails to substantiate finely-graded change -- Eldredge and Tattersall
Gaps can not be easily explained by poor fossil record -- Eldredge
Fossil record more complete than generally accepted -- Paul
Links missing where we most want them -- Jepsen, Mayr, and Simpson
Deep dark secrets of paleontology -- Cracraft
No evolutionist uses the fossil record as evidence -- Ridley
Inability to construct functional intermediates -- Gould
Constancy about the fossil gaps -- Hitching
No evidence for transitional creatures -- _The Guardian Weekly_
Fossil record should be fife with transitional forms -- Schwartz
Evolution requires intermediate forms and paleontology does not provide -- Kitts
Gaps are a persistent problem -- Williamson
If I knew of any evolutionary transitions -- Patterson
Spontaneous generation arising to evolution is scientifically impossible --Wald
An article of faith -- Urey
The only acceptable explanation is creation -- Lipson
Plant fossils favor creation -- Corner
Based on faith alone -- More
Nothing contrary to conservative creationists -- Ambrose
No recognizable way for conscience life to have emerged -- Eccles
Pseudometaphysical hypothesis -- Smith
Origin of life is still a mystery -- d'Aubigne
Too complex to have occurred by chance -- Rubin
Evolution has grave defects -- Fleischmann
Macroevolution fails at every level -- Haines
No definitive evidence that viruses, bacteria, or protozoa are inter-related -- Kerkut
No proof life was not created -- Jostrow
Paleontologists say fossils support gradualism knowing that it does not -- Eldredge
Well-documented lineages don't withstand scrutiny -- Paul
Abominable mystery -- Darwin
Origin of life appears to be almost a miracle -- Crick
The most obvious and serious objection against the theory -- Darwin
Devoted myself to a fantasy -- Darwin
No evidence for the origin of fish -- Norman
No known fish directly ancestral to land vertebrates -- Stahl
No scientists can prove evolution -- Millikan
Evolution accepted because creation is incredible
Unproved and unprovable -- Keith
We cannot prove a single species has changed -- Darwin
Rightfully reject my whole theory -- Darwin
My theory would absolutely break down -- Darwin
That fact would be fatal to the theory of descent -- Darwin
Lungfish have origins firmly based on nothing -- White
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