Top 13 Kenneth R. Miller Quotes

As you know, the fossil record includes not only the ancestors of crocodiles and whales, but also the ancestors of human beings. And this, of course, is why evolution remains controversial.

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

All too often, the word ‘religion‘ has become identified with those promoting a frankly anti-scientific view of nature and of our place in the natural world.

Although each egg cell produced by a woman carries a single X chromosome, the sperm cells produced by a man carry either an X or a Y. This means, in very simple terms, that the sperm cell determines a baby‘s sex.

Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.

Evolution isn’t just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It’s an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.

Being a Christian, I’m eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don’t think I should do it in the science classroom.

We don’t regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

‘Intelligent Design,’ the relabeled, repackaged form of American creationism, has always had a problem. It just can’t seem to produce any evidence.

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

America’s got a Darwin problem – and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they ‘believe in evolution.’

Biology is far from understanding exactly how a single cell develops into a baby, but research suggests that human development can ultimately be explained in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. Most scientists would make a similar statement about evolution.

I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.