Top 30 Kenneth R. Miller Quotes
#1. There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.
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#2. Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom.
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#3. Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.
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#4. The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.
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#5. The anti-evolution forces have been searching for a new strategy that would accomplish the same end. That purpose is, if not to get evolution out of the schools altogether, then at least undermine it as much as possible in the minds of students.
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#6. No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.
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#8. 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.
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#9. The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.
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#10. 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.
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#11. 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.
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#12. The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.
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#13. Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.
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#14. We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate.
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#15. We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of the public continue to reject the theory of evolution is just one symptom of that malaise.
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#16. From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advancing scientific understanding.
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#17. 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.
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#18. 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.'
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#19. Modern science developed in the context of western religious thought, was nurtured in universities first established for religious reasons, and owes some of its greatest discoveries and advances to scientists who themselves were deeply religious.
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#20. Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.
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#21. Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.
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#22. Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.
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#23. 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.
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#24. 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.
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#25. 'Intelligent Design,' the relabeled, repackaged form of American creationism, has always had a problem. It just can't seem to produce any evidence.
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#26. I wouldn't want the federal government dictating how I use my cameras, every community has their own issues and their own dynamics.
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#27. The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.
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#28. In an age of molecular genomics, it is ever more apparent that the fingerprints of evolution are pressed deeply into human DNA, just as they are into the genomes of every other organism. Biologists understand this, and so do students who study the science of life.
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#30. The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,' ... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question.
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