Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every g…

- David M. Raup

I doubt if there is any single individual within the scientific community who could cope with the full range of [creationist] arguments without the h…

- David M. Raup

There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is but a tiny fra…

- David M. Raup

250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for by Darwi…

- David M. Raup

In the beginning, there were bacteria.... [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through a…

- David M. Raup

It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this reasoning is sound.... Birds, as a …

- David M. Raup

The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity. ...Thus, the procedure is far from idea…

- David M. Raup

Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.

- David M. Raup

There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLI…

- David M. Raup