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. Kenneth R. Miller Read Quote
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. Kenneth R. Miller Read Quote
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. Kenneth R. Miller Read Quote
For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earth’s true past was dug up in abundance. Kenneth R. Miller Read Quote
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. Kenneth R. Miller Read Quote
The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually. Kenneth R. Miller Read Quote
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. Kenneth R. Miller Read Quote
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. Kenneth R. Miller Read Quote
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. Kenneth R. Miller Read Quote
Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense. Kenneth R. Miller Read Quote
