Henry Gee quotes

To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story-amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific. (Henry Gee)
The intervals of time that separate the fossils are so huge that we cannot say anything definite about their possible connection through ancestry and descent. View quote
Henry Gee
It's evident that Darwin saw evolution not as progressive or improving, but as an activity that happens moment by moment. From this it is clear that evolution has no plan. It has neither memory nor foresight. No vestige of cosmic strivings from some remote beginning; no prospect of revelatory culmination in some transcendent end. View quote
Henry Gee