"The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute it. Creationists simply pretend that the evidence doesn't exist."

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Source : Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution Is True”, p.105, Penguin

Jerry A. Coyne

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“And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.”

Source : Joseph Glanvill (1885). “Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science ; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion”
“There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship, and I thought that was the most important thing.”
“Religion is a Snare and a Racket,”
“Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.”
“We've never made the case, or argued the case, that somehow Osama Bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming.”

Source : Interview with Tony Snow, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. March 29, 2006.
“I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.”
“With passion, if you see the first asparagus of the springtime and you become passionate about it, so much the better, but three weeks later, when youâ€™ve seen that asparagus every day now, passions have subsided. Whatâ€™s going to make you treat the asparagus the same? Â Itâ€™s the desire.”
“He is purple - the gay-pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle - the gay pride symbol.”

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