Ernst Mayr

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.

The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?

The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it's a product of the scientific revolution.