George Gaylord Simpson

Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. ”

The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed. ”

Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular. ”