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I Am Quite Sure That Our Views On Evolution Would Be Very Different Had Biologists Studied Genetics And Natural Selection Before And Not After Most Of Them Were Convinced That Evolution Had Occurred.

My Practise As A Scientist Is Atheistic. That Is To Say, When I Set Up An Experiment I Assume That No God, Angel, Or Devil Is Going To Interfere With Its Course; And This Assumption Has Been Justified By Such Success As I Have Achieved In My Professional Career. I Should Therefore Be Intellectually Dishonest If I Were Not Also Atheistic In The Affairs Of The World. And I Should Be A Coward If I Did Not State My Theoretical Views In Public.

So Many New Ideas Are At First Strange And Horrible Though Ultimately Valuable That A Very Heavy Responsibility Rests Upon Those Who Would Prevent Their Dissemination.

Quantitative Work Shows Clearly That Natural Selection Is A Reality, And That, Among Other Things, It Selects Mendelian Genes, Which Are Known To Be Distributed At Random Through Wild Populations, And To Follow The Laws Of Chance In Their Distribution To Offspring. In Other Words, They Are An Agency Producing Variation Of The Kind Which Darwin Postulated As The Raw Material On Which Selection Acts.

If One Could Conclude As To The Nature Of The Creator From A Study Of Creation It Would Appear That God Has An Inordinate Fondness For Stars And Beetles.